Benjamin Franklin said at the conclusion of the Constitutional convention in 1789, "This Republic, which we have given you with this constitution, will end in despotism, as other forms of government have done before it, when the people become so corrupt that they are incapable of any other form of government."
via http://latterdaycommentary.blogspot.com/2008/07/can-we-legislate-morality.html
Tags: benjamin franklin, corruption, despotism, founding fathers, Freedom, virtue
Most people don’t come to church looking merely for a few new gospel facts or to see old friends, though all of that is important. They come seeking a spiritual experience. They want peace. They want their faith fortified and their hope renewed. They want, in short, to be nourished by the good word of God, to be strengthened by the powers of heaven. Those of us who are called upon to speak or teach or lead have an obligation to help provide that, as best we possibly can. We can only do that if we ourselves are striving to know God, if we ourselves are continually seeking the light of His Only Begotten Son. Then, if our hearts are right, if we are as clean as we can be, if we have prayed and wept and prepared and worried until we don’t know what more we can do, God can say to us as He did to Alma and the sons of Mosiah: “Lift up thy head and rejoice. … I will give unto you success.” 16
When crises come in our lives—and they will—the philosophies of men interlaced with a few scriptures and poems just won’t do
The one exception to the rule that the Nephite kings supported themselves with the labor of their own hands was that of the wicked king Noah. He imposed a twenty per cent income tax upon the people to support himself, his priests and their wives and concubines.
via Inspired Constitution :: The Book of Mormon and the Constitution.
Tags: king noah, priestcraft, taxes
The only power the Constitution gave to the federal government regarding money was to coin it and borrow it. The power to print it is nowhere mentioned.
Furthermore we are faced with the fact that the Constitution forbids the states to make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. If we respect this mandate, how can we possibly believe that the federal government has the power to compel them to use anything else? To believe that the federal government has the right to compel the states to violate the Constitution is against all reason.
I believe in honest money, the gold and silver coinage of the Constitution, and a circulating medium convertible into such money without loss. I regard it as a flagrant violation of the explicit provisions of the Constitution for the federal government to make it a criminal offense to use gold or silver as legal tender or to issue irredeemable paper money. (Ezra Taft Benson, An Enemy Hath Done This, p. 145)
via Inspired Constitution :: The Book of Mormon and the Constitution.
Tags: constitution, gold, money, silver
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