The verb "ordain" can mean to officially enact, and "establish" means to found or define. This phrase in the preamble to the US Constitution simply means the Constitution is being put into place as the basis for the US government.
The verb "ordain" can mean to officially enact, and "establish" means to found or define. This phrase in the preamble to the US Constitution simply means the Constitution is being put into place as the basis for the US government.
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The verb "ordain" can mean to officially enact, and "establish" means to found or define. This phrase in the preamble to the US Constitution simply means the Constitution is being put into place as the basis for the US government.
We the people of the US of America. . . do ordain and establish this constitution for the US of America
"Ordain" We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution...
It means that the citizens of America will establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and prosperity, and ordain and establish the constitution just so they can form a more perfect America. :D
To ordain something to happen is to order or command it.
i have to say it woul be do ordain and establish this constitution
The phrase "do Ordain and establish this Constitution" most literally means "do order officially and found this Constitution." The statement essentially means that by their power as the 13 colony's governors, they were collectively agreeing to form and enforce the Constitution upon the colonies.
i dont really know, but i think the framers just thought it was a good ending to the preamble i guess. i mean it does sound pretty fancy.
Ordain: to create or command something formally especially by law or similarly authority.By saying "to ordain and establish this constitution" the forefathers that they had the right and authority to self govern and that the constitution was formally be granted legal precedence over the new country.