Item Detail
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7792
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3
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English
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J. Reuben Clark, Jr. : The Constitution and the Great Fundamentals
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BYU Studies
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Spring 1973
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13
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3
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255-72
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"The following panel discussion and selected audience comments and questions came in reaction to the following papers: "J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: The Constitution and the Great Fundamentals," by Martin B. Hickman; "J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Law, and International Order," by Edwin B. Firmage and Christopher L. Blakesley; and "J. Reuben Clark, Jr., on American Sovereignty and International Organization," by James B. Allen. (The panelists had read the full papers which had to be summarized for the audience because of time limitations.) Dr. Hillam was the panel moderator. Neal Maxwell: I find myself very grateful to the Department of Political Science for putting together this panorama about President Clark. I have no major quarrels with the papers except that the pressures of time have made the reading of these papers abbreviated. Because of their brevity, the abbreviations have not done justice to what these men have so laboriously put together. I am grateful that BYU Studies will be presenting these and other papers to us in a form that we can savor. It is too bad that the young members of the Church today do not know President Clark, because there is so much about him that they would appreciate. They would resonate to his immense personal integrity and consistency. Today the young are reaching out to find those who are believable and who tell you clearly where they stand. President Clark was just as wary of slogans as many young people are today. He cautioned us about how we can amend the U.S. Constitution in the wrong way and about how the manner in which wars are to be declared must be guarded. Many Americans have a gnawing feeling that we have not gone about these two kinds of things legitimately. We are faced as some would put it, with a crisis of legitimacy. The problem of undeclared wars such as the Vietnam encounter has probably shaken America as much as anything since the Civil War. I do not think that we will ever be the same again as a nation." [Publisher's abstract]