Posts Tagged ‘J. Reuben Clark Jr.’
Amendments—Principle to Observe
Called Unto Liberty, J. Reuben Clark Jr., 20th Century Sermons It is not my belief nor is it the doctrine of my Church that the Constitution is a fully grown document. On the contrary, we believe it must grow and develop to meet the changing needs of an advancing world. We know that greed and avarice and lust for power and dominion over men are [...]
Preamble Not A Grant of Power
Called Unto Liberty, J. Reuben Clark Jr., 20th Century Sermons May I emphasize that the mere fact that a matter might be of concern everywhere in the States was not sufficient in the wisdom of the Fathers to bring the matter within Federal jurisdiction. To place it there the matter must be one falling within the purposes or functions of the [...]
Separation of Powers
Called Unto Liberty, J. Reuben Clark Jr., 20th Century Sermons The Framers, in the Government they provided for, separated the three functions of government, and set each of them up as a separate branch—the legislative, the executive and the judicial. Each was wholly independent of the other. No one of them might encroach upon the other.(9) [...]
The Basic Law of Zion
Called Unto Liberty, J. Reuben Clark Jr., 20th Century Sermons The Constitution of the United States is the basic law for all of the Americas, of Zion, as it has been defined by the Lord. You brethren from Canada know that your great British North America Act, in its fundamental principles, is based upon our Constitution, and you know that [...]
The Constitutional Convention
Called Unto Liberty, J. Reuben Clark Jr., May 29 1957, 20th Century Sermons The Constitutional Convention was in fact a revolutionary body composed of representatives of the people. Neither the Constitutional Convention nor its work had any legal and official political sanction until it was adopted by the representatives of the people . . . [...]
Founders Not Political Tyros
Called Unto Liberty, J. Reuben Clark, 20th Century Sermons Moses was no more prepared by the training and experience gained in the Court of Pharaoh for his great service of leading Israel from the bondage of Egypt, than were the framers of the Constitution prepared by training and experience for their work of providing a form of government [...]
America’s Destiny
Called Unto Liberty, J. Reuben Clark, 20th Century Sermons We must come to the task of decision that now faces us, with the purest motives. Avarice, greed, selfish ambition, the thirst for power and place and dominion, must all be thrust from our hearts. We must come with the loftiest patriotism, with a single allegiance, undivided, unshared, [...]
Ancient Prophet Foresees Americas Founding
Called Unto Liberty, J. Reuben Clark, 20th Century Sermons And it came to pass that I looked and beheld many waters and they divided the Gentiles from the seed of my brethren . And it came to pass that the angel said unto me: Behold the wrath of God is upon the seed of thy brethren. And I looked and beheld a man among the Gentiles who was [...]
Allegiance to Constitution Overrides Party Loyalty
Called Unto Liberty, J. Reuben Clark Jr., 20th Century Sermons Now, I am not caring today, for myself, anything at all about a political Party tag. So far as I am concerned, I want to know what the man stands for. I want to know if he believes in the Constitution; if he believes in its free institutions; if he believes in its liberties, its [...]
Clumsy Counterfeits
Prophet Statesmen, Grant, Clark, McKay We again warn our people in America of the constantly increasing threat against our inspired Constitution and our free institutions set up under it. The same political tenets and philosophies that have brought war and terror in other parts of the world are at work amongst us in America. The proponents [...]
Like Dumb Sheep
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. Revolutionary Methods. There are certain patriotic, economic, and social factors which have been instrumental in bringing us to where we are, and that are the common instruments of the revolutionists of other lands. Most of these will persist after the war . First, there is the patriotic factor: We must do [...]
An Age Old Slavery Dressed Up In a New Suit
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. The danger always is in a Republic, and particularly in a happy Republic such as ours has been, that the citizenry will not be conscious of threatening dangers. Such is our case today . . . . The whole trend today is towards the centralizing of power. A wholly alien political philosophy, brought to us by [...]
Individual Versus The State
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. (1938) Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the State. Does the individual exist for the benefit of the State, or does the State exist for the benefit of the individual? . . . This [...]
The Wide Margin — J. Reuben Clark Jr.
Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, J. Reuben Clark Jr. Tradition has it that Solon, the great law-giver declared in reply to the taunt "Are these the best laws you can devise?" No! but they are the best the Greeks can bear!" There is always a wide margin between the theoretically perfect and the practically enforceable law. J. Reuben Clark Jr. [...]
As Giants to Pygmies — J. Reuben Clark Jr.
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. Moses was no more prepared by the training and experience gained in the Court of Pharaoh for his great service of leading Israel from the bondage of Egypt, than were the framers of the Constitution prepared by training and experience for their work of providing a form of government that would “secure the [...]
The Great Neutral — J. Reuben Clark Jr.
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. America, multi-raced and multi-nationed, is by tradition, by geography, by citizenry, by natural sympathy, and by material interest, the great neutral nation of the earth. God has so designed it. Drawn from all races, creeds, and nations, our sympathies run to every oppressed people. Our feelings engaged on [...]
Seedbed of Socialism — Ambitious Agitators, Malcontents, and Idlers — J. Reuben Clark Jr.
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. There are among us ambitious agitators and malcontents, those unwilling, and it may be unable, to meet the press and rivalry—most dear to freemen—of free competition among a free people. Nurtured frequently under systems of government and society alien to our own, they come to us and would prescribe for [...]
Jesus Christ: The God of This Land — J. Reuben Clark Jr.
Prophet Statesmen, J. Reuben Clark Jr. And it came to pass that I looked and beheld many waters and they divided the Gentiles from the seed of my brethren . And it came to pass that the angel said unto me: Behold the wrath of God is upon the seed of thy brethren. And I looked and beheld a man among the Gentiles who was separated from the seed [...]
