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Topic: Sovereignty, Matches 1 quotes.
President Ezra Taft Benson expressed the fundamental principle of popular sovereignty when he said, “We [the people] are superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.” The Book of Mormon explains that principle in these words:
An unrighteous king doth pervert the ways of all righteousness . . . .
Therefore, choose you by the voice of this people, judges, that ye may be judged according to the laws . . . .
Now it is not common that the voice of the people desireth anything contrary to that which is right; but it is common for the lesser part of the people to desire that which is not right; therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law—to do your business by the voice of the people. (Mosiah 29:23-26.)
Popular sovereignty necessarily implies popular responsibility. Instead of blaming their troubles on a king or other sovereign, all citizens must share the burdens and responsibilities of governing. As the Book of Mormon teaches, “The burden should come upon all the people, that every man might bear his part.” (Mosiah 29:34.)
Source: Elder Dallin H. Oaks
The Divinely Inspired Constitution
From an address given 5 July 1987 at the Provo Freedom Festival.
Topics: Responsibility; Sovereignty
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