I strongly believe, just like many others, that the United States Constitution was a document inspired by God. In D&C 101:80 it says, “…I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose…” The Lord prepared our founding fathers so that they would be able to build up our Constitution for our country to be free. We needed our country to be free so the restoration of the church would be able to happen. In President Ezra Taft Benson’s October 1987 he said, “I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed His stamp of approval upon it.”

Elder Dallin H. Oaks gave us his five great fundamentals of how the Constitution was inspired by God, in his talk, “The Divinely Inspired Constitution” in the Ensign in February 1992. The five fundamentals are separation of powers, a written bill of rights, division of powers, popular sovereignty, and the rule of law and not of men. The inspiration of separation of powers was the adaptation of the idea of it to the needs of a national government. The inspiration for the written bill of rights was in the implementation of principles that had already existed. The division of powers subject had not been a part of any government before. Giving the states power was part of the inspiration of the division of powers. Popular sovereignty gives power to the people of the states.  Elder Dallin H. Oaks said this about popular sovereignty, “Along with many religious people, Latter-day Saints affirm that God gave the power to the people, and the people consented to a constitution that delegated certain powers to the government.” Without the rule of law all the blessings we have received from the Constitution would not be possible. “The rule of law is the basis of liberty.”