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. Article. I. Section. […]
The U.S. Bill of Rights The Preamble to The Bill of Rights Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, […]
The Constitution – A Heavenly Banner President Ezra Taft Benson President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints BYU Devotional September 16, 1986 Read Our Priceless Heritage Elder Ezra Taft Benson Of the Council of the Twelve General Conference October 1976 Read/Watch Our Divine Constitution President Ezra Taft Benson President of The Church […]
Joseph Smith Even this nation will be on the verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground and when the Constitution is on the brink of ruin this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction. (I […]
Joseph Smith The Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard. It is founded in the wisdom of God. It is a heavenly banner: it is to all those who are privileged with the sweets of its liberty, like the cooling shades and refreshing waters of a great rock in a thirsty and weary […]
Friends and Fellow-Citizens, The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially […]
(Books are listed in suggested reading order) The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner Ezra Taft Benson President Benson outlines the basic eternal principles upon which the Constitution is based, reviews how it came forth, and recognizes the contributions and motives of Founding Fathers. He affirms God’s approval of the Constitution, and reviews its major provisions. He […]
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After the delegates at the Constitutional Convention had finished the Constitution, many were concerned because it didn’t contain a list of rights. Some even refused to sign the document for that reason. They all believed that mankind had God-given rights. It worried them that the rights were not specifically set forth in the Constitution. In […]
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which […]