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Which meaning of ordain most closely matches its meaning in this excerpt from
"After Being Convicted of Voting in the 1872 Presidential Election"?
"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
A. [verb] to invest with priestly authority
B. [verb] doom
C. [verb] to establish by law
D. [verbl to be fated