After ordainment, Americans from consenting states would indeed “form a more perfect Union” that prohibited unilateral exit. Thus, the establishment of “this Constitution” was not just the world’s most democratic moment, but also, in a manner of speaking, the world’s largest corporate merger.
Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)
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a lucky accident had ordained that the Austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the very fields where the French had now to be fought;
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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“How I knew it would be so! I never hoped for it; and yet in my heart I was always sure,” he said. “I believe that it was ordained.”
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)
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Here were many men, and countless dogs, and Buck found them all at work. It seemed the ordained order of things that dogs should work.