Talk:Mandamus

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[edit] Say what?

In the administrative law context in the United States, the requirement that mandamus can be used only to compel a ministerial act that has largely been abandoned.

This sentence does not make syntactic sense. What is it supposed to mean? It is two dependent clauses. There is no object, and there is no verb which would apply to an object. It is an incomplete point. Presumably the word "abandoned" should be followed by something along the lines of "is" or "was" or "has been", with a final clause afterwards explaining what the requirement is or was or has been, "in the administrative law context in the United States". Or else the final instance of the word "that" must be omitted, if it's the requirement itself which has largely been abandoned. If that's the claim, then ^{[citation needed]}.

Who wrote this, why did they write it, and why did they write it in such an obfuscated mode? --75.58.54.17 04:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)