Contraception is often a major concern of parents of individuals with Down syndrome (Van Dyke et al, 1995). Parents may be uncomfortable discussing sexual and reproductive issues with a physician (Van Dyke et al, 1995).
(September 2011) In politics, a mandate is the authority granted by a constituency to act as its representative. The concept of a government having a legitimate mandate to govern via the fair winning of a democratic election is a central idea of representative democracy. New governments who attempt to introduce policies that they did not make public during an election campaign are said not to have a legitimate mandate to implement such policies.
Unfunded mandate. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In the United States, federal mandates are orders that induce responsibility, action, procedure or anything else that is imposed by constitutional, administrative, executive, or judicial action for state and local governments and/or the private sector.he rise in federal mandates led to more mandate regulation. During the Reagan Administration, Executive Order 12291 and the State and Local Cost Estimate Act of 1981 were passed, which implemented a careful examination of the true costs of federal unfunded mandates.