What is another word for "mandate"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "mandate": able, absorbing, ask, call, cannot, case, charge, claim, command, create, crying, death, deficiency, demand, desiderate, desideratum, desire, destitute, dispense, essential, essentiality, exaction, exigency, exigent, for, have, imperative, indispensability, indispensable, injunction, instant, lack, life, lose, make, matter, necessarily, necessary, necessitate, necessity.