mandate vs law

mandate and law both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mandate	Yes	No	Yes	No
law	Yes	No	No	No

mandate (noun)	law (noun)
the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory	the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
a document giving an official instruction or command	a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves	a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
	the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
	legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
	the collection of rules imposed by authority
	the force of policemen and officers