Civic Standards for the Faithful Saints, Ensign (CR), July 1972, p.59
We honor these partners because their devotion to correct principles overshadowed their devotion to popularity, party, or personalities.
We honor our founding fathers of this republic for the same reason. God raised up these patriotic partners to perform their mission, and he called them wise men. (See D&C 101:80.) The First Presidency acknowledged that wisdom when they gave us the guideline a few years ago of supporting political candidates who are truly dedicated to the Constitution in the tradition of our Founding Fathers. (Deseret News, November 2, 1964.)
That tradition has been summarized in the book, "The American Tradition" by Clarence Carson.
The Lord said that the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. (Luke 16:8.) Our wise founders seemed to understand, better than most of us, our own scripture, which states that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion. (D&C 121:39.)
To help prevent this, the founders knew that our elected leaders should be bound by certain fixed principles.
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These wise founders, our patriotic partners, seemed to appreciate more than most of us the blessings of the boundaries that the Lord set within the Constitution, for he said, And as pertaining to law of man, "Whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil." (D&C 98:7.)
In God the founders trusted, and in his Constitution not in the arm of flesh. "O Lord," said Nephi, "I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in thee forever. I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh; cursed is he that putteth his trust in man or maketh flesh his arm." (2 Ne. 4:34.)
President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., put it well when he said:
God provided that in this land of liberty, our political allegiance shall run not to individuals, that is, to government officials, no matter how great or how small they may be. Under His plan our allegiance and the only allegiance we owe as citizens or denizens of the United States, runs to our inspired Constitution which God himself set up. So runs the oath of office of those who participate in government. A certain loyalty we do owe to the office which a man holds, but even here we owe just by reason of our citizenship, no loyalty to the man himself. In other countries it is to the individual that allegiance runs. This principle of allegiance to the Constitution is basic to our freedom. It is one of the great principles that distinguishes this land of liberty from other countries. (Improvement Era, July 1940, p. 444.)
Patriotism, said Theodore Roosevelt, means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.
Every man, said President Roosevelt, who parrots the cry of stand by the President without adding the proviso “...so far as he serves the Republic” takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude. (Theodore Roosevelt, Works, vol. 21, pp. 316, 321.) And yet as Latter-day Saints we should pray for our civic leaders and encourage them in righteousness.
"to vote for wicked men, it would be sin," said Hyrum Smith. (Documentary History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 323.)
And the Prophet Joseph Smith said, " Let the people of the whole Union, like the inflexible Romans, whenever they find a promise made by a candidate that is not practiced as an officer, hurl the miserable sycophant from his exaltation." (DHC, vol. 6, p. 207.)