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ORDAIN. To ordain is to make an ordinance, to enact a law.
2. In the constitution of the United States, the preamble. declares
that the people "do ordain and establish this constitution for the United
States of America." The 3d article of the same constitution declares, that
"the judicial power shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such
inferior courts as the congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
"See 1 Wheat. R. 304, 324; 4 Wheat: R. 316, 402.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.