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President Oaks
Divine Inspiration
The Constitution
Inspired Principles
Unique Responsibilities For Members of Christ's Church
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  • How many years has President Oaks been an Apostle of Jesus Christ?

37 years

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  • Was the constitution divinely dictated by every word and phrase?

No

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  • What date was the constitution signed and how many signatures are on it?

September 17, 1787

39 signatures

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  • How many principles does President Oaks believe are divinely inspired?

5

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  • What is the most desirable condition for men and women to have maximum freedom to act according to their individual choices?

Agency and accountability

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How long has President Oaks been studying the constitution?

60 years

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  • What did President J. Reuben Clark say about the divinely inspired constitution?

The Constitution was not “a fully grown document,” said President J. Reuben Clark. “On the contrary,” he explained, “we believe it must grow and develop to meet the changing needs of an advancing world.”

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  • How does President Oaks explain what the constitution is? 

A constitution is the foundation of government. It provides structure and limits for the exercise of government powers.

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  • What are the 3 branches of the government?

Executive, Legislative, and Judicial

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  • What D&C scripture is mentioned in President Oaks talk about agency and accountability?

D&C 101:78-79

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  • How many years was President Oaks a professor of law?

15 years

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  • Why is the constitution unique to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?

Our belief in divine inspiration gives Latter-day Saints a unique responsibility to uphold and defend the United States Constitution.

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  • True or False: The United States Constitution is the oldest written constitution still in force today.

True

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  • The constitution divides power between the federal government and who else?

The United States Constitution limits the national government to the exercise of powers granted expressly or by implication, and it reserves all other government powers “to the States respectively, or to the people.”

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  • What is the article of faith mentioned in President Oaks’ talk?

Article of Faith 1:12

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  • How many years was he a justice on the Utah Supreme Court?

3 1/2 years

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  • What D&C scriptures refer to the establishment of the constitution?

D&C 101:77 & 80

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  • Who is the premier federal agency whose main responsibility is to uphold the constitution?
  • The FBI
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  • What makes the US constitution so revolutionary compared to foreign constitutions?

Sovereign power was universally assumed to come from the divine right of kings or from military power, attributing sovereign power to the people was revolutionary.

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  • What kind of person should we seek out and support in political office?

D&C 98:10 Wherefore, honest men and wise men should be sought for diligently, and good men and wise men ye should observe to uphold; otherwise whatsoever is less than these cometh of evil.

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  • President Dallin H. Oaks was named after his mother's favorite artist, who was that artist?

Cyrus Dallin, a Utah artist. She was present at the unveiling of The Pioneer Mother, a monument in Springville, Utah made by Dallin. This unveiling was only three weeks before Elder Oaks was born, and Stella afterward decided to name her son "Dallin" after the artist.

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  • Who said this quote about Divine revelation? “When God speaks to the people, he does it in a manner to suit their circumstances and capacities…Should the Lord Almighty send an angel to re-write the Bible, it would in many places be very different from what it now is. And I will even venture to say that if the Book of Mormon were now to be re-written, in many instances it would materially differ from the present translation. According as people are willing to receive the things of God, so the heavens send forth their blessings.”

Brigham Young

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  • What was God’s purpose in establishing the United States Constitution?

God has given His children moral agency—the power to decide and to act. The most desirable condition for the exercise of that agency is maximum freedom for men and women to act according to their individual choices. It is wrong for citizens to have no voice in the selection of their rulers or the making of their laws.

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  • Adopted by amendment just three years after the Constitution went into force what is a vital document that guarantees individual rights and specific limits on government authority?

The Bill of Rights

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  • What advice does President Oaks give about choosing what to support politically?

There are many political issues, and no party, platform, or individual candidate can satisfy all personal preferences. Each citizen must therefore decide which issues are most important to him or her at any particular time.