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Harold B. Lee

… 28 March 1899 Ordained an Apostle: 10 April 1941 President of the Twelve: 23 January 1970 First Counselor to Joseph … December 1973 Died: 26 December 1973 Relationship with the Constitution and U.S. Government President Harold B. Lee was …

David O. McKay

… Counselor to George Albert Smith: 21 May 1945 President of the Twelve: 30 September 1950 President of the Church: 9 … January 1970 Died: 18 January 1970 Relationship with the Constitution and U.S. Government President David O. McKay was …

The Rise of Freedom in America

… In his petition for prayer, Benjamin Franklin addressed the president of the Constitutional Convention, George Washington, by … the birth of a new nation, and the framing of the Constitution of 1787, including the Bill of Rights. In …

Ezra Taft Benson

… August 1899 Ordained an Apostle: 7 October 1943 President of the Twelve: 30 December 1973 President of the Church: 10 November 1985 Relationship with the Constitution of the U.S. Government As a young man, President …

George Albert Smith

… 4 April 1870 Ordained an Apostle: 8 October 1903 President of the Twelve: 1 July 1943 President of the Church: 21 May … 1945–4 April 1951 Died: 4 April 1951 Relationship with the Constitution and U.S. Government George Albert Smith …

"We the People of the Kingdom of God"

… In the spring of 1844, Joseph Smith created a secret … William W. Phelps, and Parley P. Pratt “to draft a constitution which should be perfect, and embrace those principles of which the constitution of the United States lacked.” [1] Slightly more than a month later, …

Joseph Fielding Smith

… 1876 Ordained an Apostle: 7 April 1910 Acting President of the Twelve: 30 September 1950 President of the Twelve: 9 … 1970—2 July 1972 Died: 2 July 1972 Relationship with the Constitution and U.S. Government Joseph Fielding Smith …

"We Never Had So Ominous a Question"

… “We should become the center of a system which would constitute the … a long, hot summer, the several delegates crafted a new Constitution of the United States with seven articles that, …

John Taylor, Adopted Son of America

… Less than five years after his arrival in the New World and only months after moving his family to … Church members near Columbus, Ohio, had warned Taylor of the mob’s intentions to tar and feather him if he insisted … sacred, human rights, and now guaranteed by the American Constitution. I see around me the sons of those noble sires.” …

Heber J. Grant

… 1856 Ordained an Apostle: 16 October 1882 President of the Twelve: 23 November 1916 President of the Church: 23 … 1918–14 May 1945 Died: 14 May 1945 Relationship with the Constitution and U.S. Government Heber J. Grant served longer …