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Majority rule |
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therefore choose you by the voice of this people,
judges, that ye may be judged according to the laws which hath been given
you by our fathers, which are correct, and which was given them by the
hand of the Lord. |
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Mosiah, Book of Mormon (1830), 219.
hath: have in current edition, Mosiah 29:25.
was: were in current edition. |
Majority usually right
Govern by voice of the people
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Now it is not common that the avoice of the
people desireth anything contrary to that which is right; but it is common
for the lesser part of the people to desire that which is not right;
therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law—to do your business by the
voice of the people.
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law to: law—to in
current edition , Mosiah 29:26. |
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First ordinations |
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[Joseph and Oliver are] commanded to defer this
our ordination untill, such times, as it should be practicable to have
our brethren, who had been and who should be baptized, assembled together,
when we must have their sanction to our thus proceeding to ordain each
other … |
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| July [4–31], 1830 |
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[3] And all things shall be done
by common consent in the church, by much prayer and faith, [4]
for all things you shall receive by faith. Amen.
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D&C 26:2, History JS, TS 4 no. 7 (Feb. 15, 1843): 108. |
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Everything by |
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| Church covenants |
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… [13] neither
shall anything be appointed unto any of this church contrary to the church
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D&C 28:12–13 |
| Order, consent, prayer |
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For all things must be done in order,
and by common consent in the church, by the prayer of faith. |
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| February 19, 1834 |
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Correcting minutes |
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Joseph tells the council that he worked all day yesterday correcting the
previous council minutes and wants them to listen carefully and prayerfully
because the are all equally concerned. The council detects an error, which
is corrected, then votes to accept the document as "a form or constitution
for the high council |
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Minutes of February 19, 1834 |
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| February 24, 1834 |
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Council votes on Joseph's going to Zion |
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When Lyman Wight and Parley P. Pratt report the desire of
Jackson county refugees to return to Zion, Joseph rises and declares he
will go to "assist in redeeming it. He then called for the voice of
the council to sanction his going which was given without a dissenting voice."
Then he calls for volunteers. |
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Minues
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| April 23, 1834 |
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United Firm operates by |
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United Firm |
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And now, verily I say unto you concerning the properties
of the Firm. … let all things be done according to the counsel of
the
Firm, and united consent or voice of
the Firm which dwells in the land of Kirtland.. |
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and there shall not any part of it be used or
taken out of the treasury only by the voice and common consent of the Firm.
And this shall be the voice and common consent of the Firm. That any man
among you say unto the treasurer, I have need of this to help me in my
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¶ D&C
104 Sources, Kirtland Revelation Book |
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& pledge the properties which I have put into your hands
this once by giving your names by common consent or otherwise as it shall
seem good unto you,
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¶ D&C
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No person is to be ordained to any office in this
church, where there is a regularly organized branch of the same, without
the vote of that church |
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