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02 July 2009

Feeling Patriotic

Knowing as we do that God set up this Constitution of ours and that He declared it "should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and holy principles" (D&C 101:77), it is the duty of every member of the Church to protect and defend the Constitution against any attack. In this country our lawful political allegiance runs not to any man, not to any party, not to any "ism," but to the Constitution of the United States and to the free institutions set up under it. There can be no tampering with the "just and holy principles" in the Constitution. No true Latter-day Saint can or will do other than reverence the Constitution; each will do all in his power to save it from pollution or destruction. -J. Reuben Clark.
(April 1941, General Conference. Quoted in "A Glorious Standard" page 90. See my give-away for a free copy.)

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