Trust is the juridical presupposition under which mandate powers ruled

Evidence

While the locus of sovereignty in the mandates was a topic of great controversy, mandatory powers were generally not considered to be sovereign. Rather, the mandates were held in trust, and the presupposition of a trust, as the conservative thinker Edmund Burke outlined in his famous indictment of the British East India Company, is that any power set over people must be exercised for their benefit. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 89

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the trust relationship as the jurisprudential basis of mandate rule.
• XREF: Connects to Burke on India and to the reader’s broader interest in the ethics of power exercised over non-self-governing peoples. — connects to: Absolute rules of duty justify trust in those holding power over others; Legitimate government conceives power as a mutually observed trust — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1182; Trust operates where parties are both free and constrained — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2729 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Absolute rules of duty justify trust in those holding power over others #exemplifies (0.85)
• Legitimate government conceives power as a mutually observed trust #corroborates (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1182
• Illegitimate government corrodes trust between ruler and ruled #complicates (0.78) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1174
• Trust operates where parties are both free and constrained #expands (0.72) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2729