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30151
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English
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Joseph Smith and the Constitution
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Sustaining the Law : Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters
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Provo, UT
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BYU Studies
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1-38
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In order to situate Joseph Smith's understanding of constitutional law within the legal and political context of the early American republic, this overview will (1) discuss what the Constitution was and was not during Joseph Smith's lifetime, (2) briefly examine the four revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants that relate most directly to the U.S. Constitution, (3) argue that when Joseph Smith referred to the "principles" of the Constitution, much of what he had in mind are the legal purposes found in the Preamble to the Constitution, and (4) present, as far as possible, every known explicit statement by Joseph Smith regarding the Constitution in chronological order with a few details about their historical contexts. [From the text]