Title: What is a Mandate? - Definition & Examples - Social Science Class [2021 Video] | Study.com
Headings: What is a Mandate? - Definition & Examples
What is a Mandate? - Definition & Examples
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Mandates: When Winning Might Not Be Enough
When Is a Mandate Really a Mandate?
Roosevelt's Mandate
Reagan's Mandate
Truman's Mandate
Obama's Mandate
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Content: So, even if you have won the election, have you won by enough? Roosevelt's Mandate
The case of Franklin Roosevelt is instructive here. Roosevelt ran and won the U.S. presidency in 1932 and immediately proposed a New Deal, a massive series of government programs in order to end the Great Depression. Some of the proposals were successful, some less so; but when he stood for reelection in 1936, Roosevelt put the New Deal and what he had done thus far front and center in his campaign. And the voters supported him; he was re-elected handily. Four years later, Roosevelt decided to run again, violating the 'two-term' custom that had originated with George Washington (at that time, there was no legal prohibition against it); his re-election that year and then again in 1944 for an unprecedented fourth term, was a strong indicator that the broad American electorate supported both his programs during the Great Depression and his leadership during World War II. Reagan's Mandate
Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 and almost immediately embarked on several major initiatives;