`` 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 for the United States of America ''.

`` We the people of the Confederate States, each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity -- invoking the favor and the guidance of Almighty God -- do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America ''.

Abd ar-Rahman forced the defeated Muladi to send hostages and treasures to Córdoba, in order to secure their continued submission.

* They hold that the continuing practice among many Independent clergy of one person receiving multiple ordinations in order to secure apostolic succession, betrays an incorrect and mechanistic theology of ordination.

In order to secure communications with Georgia and other regions of the Transcaucasia, the Russian Empire began spreading its influence into the Caucasus mountains.

Several colonies were placed in new provinces or on the border of the Empire in order to secure Roman holdings as quickly as possible.

In order to secure a qualification as a lecturer, the family moved to England, where he registered at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Even if there were a deceiving god ( or an evil demon ), one's belief in their own existence would be secure, for there is no way one could be deceived unless one existed in order to be deceived.

Ideally, a secure system should require a deliberate, conscious, knowledgeable and free decision on the part of legitimate authorities in order to make it insecure.

Devices such as dongles may be considered more secure due to the physical access required in order to be compromised.

The backup media should be moved between the geographic sites in a secure manner, in order to prevent them from being stolen.

The change to the dollar also precipitated a trend toward lower interest rates in El Salvador, helping many to secure credit in order to buy a house or a car ; over time, displeasure with the change has largely disappeared, though the issue resurfaces as a political tool when elections are on the horizon.

" The Fascists supported revolutionary action and committed to secure law and order to appeal to both conservatives and syndicalists.

In order to gain weapons and to secure a major power base in the Vaasa-Seinäjoki area the Whites continued disarmament of Russian garrisons, initiated locally in western and eastern Finland during 21 – 23 January, followed by a major operation in Ostrobothnia during the early hours of 28 January.

Fellini welcomed the assignment as it allowed him " to secure another extension on his draft order ".

The strategies are typically combined, creating a few " forfeit " seats for packed voters of one type in order to secure even greater representation for voters of another type.

He made efforts to secure preachers of the new gospel from Hungary, Silesia, and Franconia, and tried to introduce the church order of Brandenburg-Nuremberg, which had already found acceptance in the Franconian territories.

In order to secure a majority for his NSDAP in the Reichstag, Hitler called for new elections.

The mutual version is more secure, but requires the user to install a personal certificate in their browser in order to authenticate themselves.

In 1591, Morocco invaded the Songhai Empire under Ahmad al-Mansur of the Saadi Dynasty in order to secure the goldfields of the Sahel.

This deeply contrasts with the modern, media-encouraged image of hackers who crack secure systems in order to steal information or complete an act of cyber-vandalism.

As a result, Irsay began serious negotiations with Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut in order to move the team before the Maryland legislature could pass the bill and was able to secure loans from Indianapolis on the Hoosier Dome and a training complex.

However, such a consultant must still work through brokers and / or agents in order to secure coverage for their clients.

If a legislator logrolls, he initiates the trade of votes for one particular act or bill in order to secure votes on behalf of another act or bill.

Charlemagne constituted the sub-kingdom in order to secure the border of his kingdom after the destructive war against the Aquitanians and Basques under Waifer ( capitulated c. 768 ) and later Hunald II, which culminated in the disastrous Battle of Roncesvalles ( 778 ).

An adverse vote of 81 to 65 kept in the State Affairs Committee a bill which would order the referendum on the April 4 ballot, when Texas votes on a U.S. senator.

In order to ensure the winner gains a majority of votes, two rounds of voting occur.

There is, however, no " post " that the winning candidate must pass in order to win, as the winning candidate is required only to have received the highest number of votes in his or her favour.

In a multiple member first-past-the-post ballot, the first candidates in order of highest vote to cross the " line " ( that is, those who have the successivley greater number of votes ) are elected.

While his lieutenants and the House sergeant-at-arms left the chamber to collect absent members in an attempt to rally enough votes for Cannon, the Speaker's allies initiated a legislative block in the form of a point of order debate.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador contested the results and demanded a vote-per-vote recount, which was denied by the Federal Electoral Tribunal, based on the argument that inconsistencies could not be proved for all electoral circumscriptions, but order a partial recount of votes of those that did show inconsistencies which represented 9. 2 % of the total, after which the results were not significantly altered.

Voters rank candidates in order of preference: if their most preferred candidate receives insufficient votes, the vote is transferred to the second choice and so on.

Each party is allocated seats in proportion to the number of votes it receives, using the party-determined ranking order.

In an open list, voters may vote, depending on the model, for one person, or for two, or indicate their order of preference within the list – nevertheless the number of candidates elected from the list is determined by the number of votes the list receives.

In 2010, several liberal congressmen raised accusations about the FSLN presumably attempting to buy votes in order to pass constitutional reforms that would allow Ortega to run for office for the 6th time since 1984.

" Though Jewish opinion was mixed, Grant's determination to court Jewish voters ultimately resulted in his capturing the majority of that vote, though Grant did lose some Jewish votes as a result of the order.

This meant that the parties needed to win about 3. 2 % of the votes in order to pass the threshold.

As Australia also uses a ranked voting system supporters of minor parties are not disenfranchised as their votes are redistributed to other candidates according to the voter's nominated order of preference which can then form part of another candidates winning quota.

Constitutional amendments were made voted and made effective in January 1987 which guaranteed that the party with an absolute majority of votes would be given a majority of parliamentary seats in order to govern.

Democrats needed at least one Republican to support the measure in order to get the 60 votes to overcome GOP procedural delays, but were unsuccessful.

This discretion contributed not a little to his election to the papacy on 24 April 1585, with the title of Sixtus V. The story of his having feigned decrepitude in the conclave, in order to win votes, is pure invention.

In order to obtain or maintain automatic ballot access, a party's candidate for governor of New York must receive 50, 000 votes on that party's line.

The party need not run its own candidate and may cross-nominate another party's candidate, but in order to qualify for automatic ballot access it must receive 50, 000 votes on its own line.

Gubernatorial vote also determines ballot order, with Row " A " going to the party whose line gains the most votes ( regardless of whether or not their candidate actually wins-see the 1994 election for an example ).

Neave deliberately understated Thatcher's support in order to attract wavering votes from MPs who were keen to see Heath replaced even though they did not necessarily want Thatcher to replace him.

Six candidates stood in the first ballot to replace him, in order of votes they were: Michael Foot, James Callaghan, Roy Jenkins, Tony Benn, Denis Healey and Anthony Crosland.

Robert Baker claimed that Johnson would occasionally send senators on NATO trips in order to avoid their dissenting votes.

He alleged that the real motive of the killer was to assassinate Vice-President Annette Lu in order to garner sympathy votes for Chen Shui-bian, and that the killer had been condoned by the governing party for ulterior political reasons.