How is it that the U.S. Constitution was inspired?
What about the U.S. Constitution was inspired?
The Constitution of the United States of America has been and is a guiding document and a leading piece of inspiration for our country. Those who wrote it were definitely inspired for this greater cause. The Preamble to this Constitution demonstrates the support that the people had for the writing of this document and they too acknowledge the need of this when they say, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” These people saw and knew of the need for this Constitution. Of course these people have been prepared and were humbled. From their experiences back in their old life in Great Britain, they knew exactly how it was to live on the opposite side of freedom and could now appreciate the “Blessings of Liberty to [themselves] and [their] posterity.” That’s just it, these rights and amendments and articles of the Constitution were blessings for them, blessings from on high. God caused that “just” and “wise men” could write this document and that they could be led by Him to bring to pass His holy purposes. In the scripture found in Doctrine and Covenants, section 101 verse 77, the Lord states that it was His will that he had “suffered [the Constitution] to be established.” Now, as Elder Dallin H. Oaks states in a message given about the “Divinely Inspired Constitution,” this document has not only been a light for this country, but for almost every single country in the world (for this country was the very first to write and establish a constitution). Many other countries have adopted the idea of a constitution and have based it off of the Constitution of the United States. George Washington himself said that this Constitution was miracle, and indeed it was. Look where we are now, the United States is the most powerful country in the world. The Constitution of the United States helped to unify itself and to help it in its progress. In conclusion, the Constitution was inspired. We can safely say that it was a revelation to our founding fathers in that day, and even today, we benefit from the blessings of liberty secured in the Constitution as we are the “posterity” of the Founding Fathers.
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