God & The Founders
The Founding Fathers were raised up by God for a special purpose. What was that purpose?
To establish the Constitution and found a nation where religious freedom would allow the Restoration of the Gospel.
In what year did Joseph Smith have the First Vision?
1820 - just 31 years after the Constitution was ratified
What year was the US Constitution signed?
1787
In the premortal life, who tried to destroy the agency of mankind?
Lucifer
Which part of the First Amendment prevents the government from establishing an official religion?
The Establishment Clause
True or False: Joseph Smith taught that God had a hand in inspiring the US constitution.
True
Why was the United States the right place for the Restoration to happen?
Because the Constitution guaranteed religious freedom and protected individual agency, allowing a new church to be legally organized and grow.
What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution called?
The Bill of Rights
What is our God-given ability to choose for ourselves?
Free Agency
Which part of the First Amendment protects your right to practice your religion freely?
The Free Exercise Clause
In what temple did the Found Fathers appear to ask that their temple work be done?
St. George Temple (1877, to Wilford Woodruff)
Joseph Smith organized the restored Church of Jesus Christ in this year.
1830
Which amendment protects freedom of religion and speech?
The First Amendment
The Second Article of Faith teaches that men are accountable for their own sins - not this person's.
Adam's
Early Saints were persecuted and driven from state to state. What constitutional right were those governments violating?
The free exercise of religion
This Church president declared the Constitution 'akin to the revelations of God.'
President Ezra Taft Benson
What constitutional right protected Joseph's ability to publish The Book of Mormon?
Freedom of the press (First Ammendment)
This man is called the 'Father of the Constitution' for his key role in writing it.
James Madison
Why does Satan hate the Constitution?
Because it protects the agency of individuals, which is the opposite of his plan to compel and control
Joseph Smith petitioned this US president for federal help when the Saints were being driven from Missouri - but was turned away.
President Martin Van Buren
Doctrine and Covenants says God established the Constitution so every man could act according to this God-given gift.
Agency
Which prophet said, "it is a love of liberty which inspires my soul - civil and religious liberty to the whole of the human race."
Joseph Smith
Doctrine and Covenants 98:5-6 instructs the Saints to do this with the constitutional law of the land.
Befriend it - 'I, the Lord, God, make you free, therefore ye are free indeed...befriend that law which is the constitutional law of the land.'
Lehi taught in 2 Nephi 2 that without opposition there is no this - a principle tied directly to agency.
No righteousness
Thomas Jefferson wrote this Virginia law in 1786 as an early forerunner to the First Amendment's protection of religion.
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom