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		<title>By: Michael Cox @ Mike's World News: LDS</title>
		<link>http://denisethinks.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/independence/#comment-70</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cox @ Mike's World News: LDS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The smallest or lowest level that can possibly undertake the task is the one that should do so. The smaller the governmental unit and the closer it is to the people, the easier it is to guide it, to correct it, to keep it solvent, and to keep our freedom. 

Remember that the people of the states of this republic created the federal government. The federal government did not create the states.&quot;

Ezra Taft Benson
October 1968 General Conference</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The smallest or lowest level that can possibly undertake the task is the one that should do so. The smaller the governmental unit and the closer it is to the people, the easier it is to guide it, to correct it, to keep it solvent, and to keep our freedom. </p>
<p>Remember that the people of the states of this republic created the federal government. The federal government did not create the states.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ezra Taft Benson<br />
October 1968 General Conference</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Cox @ Mike's World News: LDS</title>
		<link>http://denisethinks.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/independence/#comment-69</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cox @ Mike's World News: LDS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe I just make them up... :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe I just make them up&#8230; <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: denisethinks</title>
		<link>http://denisethinks.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/independence/#comment-68</link>
		<dc:creator>denisethinks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Mike!  

Hey, where do you find all these quotes?  I&#039;ve tried searching at LDS.org for quotes before but had no luck.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Mike!  </p>
<p>Hey, where do you find all these quotes?  I&#8217;ve tried searching at LDS.org for quotes before but had no luck.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Cox @ Mike's World News: Politics</title>
		<link>http://denisethinks.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/independence/#comment-67</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cox @ Mike's World News: Politics</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good job.  I liked it.

Here&#039;s a couple of other Constitution quotes that I didn&#039;t use:

&quot;I have said to you before, brethren, that to me the Constitution is a part of my religion. In its place it is just as much a part of my religion as any other part. It is a part of my religion because it is one of those institutions which God has set up for His own purposes, and, as one of the brethren said today, set up so that this Church might be established, because under no other government in the world could the Church have been established as it has been established under this Government....

But the great essentials of that document, the Constitution of the United States, which God Himself inspired, is the law of Zion, the Americas.

So, brethren, I wish you to understand that when we begin to tamper with the Constitution we begin to tamper with the law of Zion which God Himself set up, and no one may trifle with the word of God with impunity.”

J. Reuben Clark, Conference Report, October 1942, Evening Meeting pp. 58-59




“President David O. McKay said on more than one occasion that the maintenance of constitutional principles was one of the most important tasks that members of the Church had before them. In an editorial in The Instructor in 1956, he said: ‘Next to being one in worshiping God there is nothing in this world upon which this Church should be more united than in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States.’”

Gerald N. Lund, The Coming of the Lord [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1971], 59.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good job.  I liked it.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a couple of other Constitution quotes that I didn&#8217;t use:</p>
<p>&#8220;I have said to you before, brethren, that to me the Constitution is a part of my religion. In its place it is just as much a part of my religion as any other part. It is a part of my religion because it is one of those institutions which God has set up for His own purposes, and, as one of the brethren said today, set up so that this Church might be established, because under no other government in the world could the Church have been established as it has been established under this Government&#8230;.</p>
<p>But the great essentials of that document, the Constitution of the United States, which God Himself inspired, is the law of Zion, the Americas.</p>
<p>So, brethren, I wish you to understand that when we begin to tamper with the Constitution we begin to tamper with the law of Zion which God Himself set up, and no one may trifle with the word of God with impunity.”</p>
<p>J. Reuben Clark, Conference Report, October 1942, Evening Meeting pp. 58-59</p>
<p>“President David O. McKay said on more than one occasion that the maintenance of constitutional principles was one of the most important tasks that members of the Church had before them. In an editorial in The Instructor in 1956, he said: ‘Next to being one in worshiping God there is nothing in this world upon which this Church should be more united than in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States.’”</p>
<p>Gerald N. Lund, The Coming of the Lord [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1971], 59.</p>
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		<title>By: Homeschool Convention &#171; Our Adventures in Homeschooling</title>
		<link>http://denisethinks.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/independence/#comment-66</link>
		<dc:creator>Homeschool Convention &#171; Our Adventures in Homeschooling</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Of course, those that know me well, know I&#8217;m very politically involved and that I&#8217;m passionate about the Constitution.  So, that was really great!  Then, on Saturday, we went and all the vendors were set up.  Also [...]</description>
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