Perspective: Latter-day Saints have a distinct charge to uphold the Constitution
Non-Resident Fellow, Judge Thomas B. Griffith published an article in Deseret news on Constitution and the unique role Latter-day Saints can play in its call to unity.
In early July 1787, the delegates who gathered in Philadelphia to create a written constitution for the new nation faced the real prospect of failure. Yet by mid-September, they had produced the charter that would be the basis for our enduring success as a nation.
In his letter transmitting the Constitution to Congress, George Washington attributed this surprising turn of events — what one popular account of the convention called the “Miracle at Philadelphia” — to the “spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.”
Our current political situation — fraught with division and partisan politics — renders indispensable those same qualities.