mandataries

Atheists might have got liberal judges to outlaw prayer in school and legalize the killing of unborn children but the mandataries are going to enthrone judges who are going to rule under God's law and execute anyone who aborts.

How the Religious Right Hijacked Jesus in Broad Daylight 2006

The French, as mandataries, naturally chose to perpetuate the system that they had inspired.

Shedding Light on Lebanon 1984

The French, as mandataries, naturally chose to perpetuate the system that they had inspired.

Shedding Light on Lebanon 1984

If we include in the term "official" all the mandataries of the party in the communes, etc., most of whom are unpaid, we sometimes attain to surprising results.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

It should be added that public opinion within the party has often shown itself strongly adverse to the practice, stigmatizing the delegates who are appointed on these terms as "mandataries by accommodation," and regarding the conferring and the acceptance of such a mandate as a treason to the party and as a form of corruption.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

Obligations could be acquired through the paternal and dominical powers and through mandataries.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

One generally finds that at such times some foreign power receives, as we are getting to say, a mandate (but from the Law) to run these dead or sleeping or disorganized regions, -- until such time as they come to life again, and proceed to evict the mandataries.

The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

It is a power given against a man elected by the people; for consul and tribune are equally mandataries of the people.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

Your Majesty is obliged to decide wholly by yourself or through your mandataries ....

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

Reduced to its most concise expression, the fundamental sociological law of political parties (the term "political" being here used in its most comprehensive significance) may be formulated in the following terms: "It is organization which gives birth to the dominion of the elected over the electors, of the mandataries over the mandators, of the delegates over the delegators.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916