`` 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 ''.

Kant argued that the goal of humanity it to achieve perfect happiness and virtue ( the summum bonum ) and believed that an afterlife must exist in order for this to be possible, and that God must exist to provide this.

Alternative arguments from moral order have proposed that we have an obligation to attain the perfect good of both happiness and moral virtue.

They attest that whatever we are obliged to do must be possible, and achieving the perfect good of both happiness and moral virtue is only possible if a natural moral order exists.

John Ferguson's English brigade supported Rowe's left, and moved in perfect order towards the barricades between the village and the river, defended by Hautefeuille's dragoons.

In order to carry out the fundamentalist program in practice, one would need a perfect understanding of the ancient language of the original text, if indeed the true text can be discerned from among variants.

Many years earlier, an advanced civilization once existed, and for a time, the Earth's Cosmos was in perfect order.

In 2011, the asking / selling price of a near-impeccable ten-barrel Model 1883 Colt Gatling Gun in perfect working order, with carriage and 105 round cartridge, was over $ 300, 000 USD.

The quality of cleavage can be described based on how cleanly and easily the mineral breaks ; common descriptors, in order of decreasing quality, are " perfect ", " good ", " distinct ", and " poor ".

Performing eight perfect faro shuffles in a row restores the order of the deck to the original order only if there are 52 cards in the deck and if the original top and bottom cards remain in their positions ( 1st and 52nd ) during the eight shuffles.

Because of the inversion of order created by a devious or witty slave, this stock character was perfect for achieving a humorous response and the traits of the character worked well for driving the plot forward.

In his model, assuming perfect computation techniques, simultaneous equations relating inputs and outputs to ratios of equivalence would provide appropriate valuations in order to balance supply and demand.

Augustine's position, and subsequently that of much of Christianity, was that Adam and Eve had the power to topple God's perfect order, thus changing nature by bringing sin into the world, but that the advent of sin then limited mankind's power thereafter to evade the consequences without divine aid.

In 1864, Luppis presented Whitehead with the plans of the salvacoste ( coastsaver ), a floating weapon driven by ropes from the land, and made a contract with him in order to perfect the invention.

Luppis knew Robert Whitehead, an English engineer who was the manager of a Fiume factory and in 1864 Luppis made a contract with him in order to perfect the invention.

" God's plan for the world is that men should work together to renew and constantly perfect the temporal order.

These experiments were crucial in order to perfect the techniques needed later for the discovery of more exotic particles in a different type of particle collider.

Linen wrinkles very easily, and so some more formal linen garments require ironing often, in order to maintain perfect smoothness.

As they did so their ranks broke up, and the Scots, deluded into thinking the English were leaving the field, abandoned their position in a disorderly downhill charge, only to find that Surrey's forces had reformed on Spottsmuir and were advancing in perfect order.

Morphy ’ s room was always kept in perfect order, for he was very particular and neat, yet this room had a peculiar aspect and at once struck the visitor as such, for Morphy had a dozen or more pairs of shoes of all kinds which he insisted in keeping arranged in a semi-circle in the middle of the room, explaining with his sarcastic smile that in this way, he could at once lay his hands on the particular pair he desired to wear.

However, in some games, such as blackjack, it is necessary to learn perfect play in order to match the house.

After his death, it ultimately went into another decline and was in danger of being torn down and turned into a parking lot but on 7 January 1993, France's then Minister of Culture, Jack Lang issued a preservation order for the Olympia that resulted in two years of construction work to rebuild a perfect replica of the façade and the grandeur of its famous red interior.

Whole Allied ranks were swept away, but still they pressed forward in perfect order as if on parade, the better to foster cohesion and the better to overawe their opponents.

Flowers across the Apiaceae are fairly uniform and are usually perfect ( hermaphroditic ) and actinomorphic, but some are andromonoecious, polygamomonoecious, or even dioecious ( as in Acronema ), with a distinct calyx and corolla, but the calyx if often highly reduced, to the point of being undetectable in many species, while the corolla can be white, yellow, pink or purple.

Pure substances can ( ideally ) form perfect crystals as T → 0.

Many processes are close to adiabatic and can be easily approximated by using an adiabatic assumption, but there is always some heat loss ; as no perfect insulators exist.

For Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten aesthetics is the science of the sense experiences, a younger sister of logic, and beauty is thus the most perfect kind of knowledge that sense experience can have.

In 1958, David Finkelstein identified the Schwarzschild surface as an event horizon, " a perfect unidirectional membrane: causal influences can cross it in only one direction ".

Assuming perfect combustion conditions, such as complete combustion under adiabatic conditions ( i. e., no heat loss or gain ), the adiabatic combustion temperature can be determined.

The words exact and perfect do not appear here, as very few aspects of chemistry can be computed exactly.

The plasma pressure can be calculated by the state equation of a perfect gas, where is the particle number density, the Boltzmann constant and the plasma temperature.

The justification for central planning is that the consolidation of economic resources can allow for the economy to take advantage of more perfect information when making decisions regarding investment and production.

For an infinite group, the derived series need not terminate at a finite stage, and one can continue it to infinite ordinal numbers via transfinite recursion, thereby obtaining the transfinite derived series, which eventually terminates at the perfect core of the group.

Given these connotations, dandyism can be seen as a political protestation against the rise of levelling egalitarian principles, often including nostalgic adherence to feudal or pre-industrial values, such as the ideals of " the perfect gentleman " or " the autonomous aristocrat ", though paradoxically, the dandy required an audience, as Susann Schmid observed in examining the " successfully marketed lives " of Oscar Wilde and Lord Byron, who exemplify the dandy's roles in the public sphere, both as writers and as personae providing sources of gossip and scandal.

" The intellect itself develops from a material intellect ( al -' aql al-hayulani ), which is a potentiality " that can acquire knowledge to the active intellect ( al -' aql al-fa ' il ), the state of the human intellect in conjunction with the perfect source of knowledge ".

Multicollinearity ( as long as it is not " perfect ") can be present resulting in a less efficient, but still unbiased estimate.

If the firm is a perfect competitor in all input markets, and thus the per-unit prices of all its inputs are unaffected by how much of the inputs the firm purchases, then it can be shown that at a particular level of output, the firm has economies of scale if and only if it has increasing returns to scale, has diseconomies of scale if and only if it has decreasing returns to scale, and has neither economies nor diseconomies of scale if it has constant returns to scale.

Possibly, the most profound example of extraordinarily prolonged dissociative fugue can be found in Iain Banks ' the Culture series novels, where " the perfect mercenary " Cheradenine Zakalwe persists in such a state for more than a millennium, including almost one hundred lifetimes in simulated environments.

" Matt Paprocki of Blogcritics said the film is " far from perfect " and " can be downright boring at times " but felt that " the destruction scenes make up for everything else " and " the final battle is an epic that simply can't be matched ".

If some specific deductive system of first-order logic is sound and complete, then is it " perfect " ( a formula is provable iff it is a semantic consequence of the axioms ), thus equivalent to any other deductive system with the same quality ( any proof in one system can be converted into the other ).

Typically prices can range from US $ 1 / carat for a normal amethyst to US $ 20, 000 – 50, 000 for a collector's three carat pigeon-blood almost " perfect " ruby.

Verbs can also be marked for both mood and tense together, such as the present subjunctive ( So be it ) and the past subjuncitve ( Were it so ), or all three, such as the past perfect subjunctive ( Had it been so ).

The two types are different in that Type I wrongly assumes that gambling conditions are fair and perfect, while Type II assumes that the conditions are biased, and that this bias can be detected after a certain amount of time.

Other types of data can also use this perfect hashing scheme.

In addition, the whole unit can be moved up or down to affect perfect pitch and string alignment.

An example of this is how TLR5 ( activated by flagellin ) can redistribute to the basolateral membrane, which is the perfect place where flagellin can be detected.