It is obvious to most that the entire founding of the United States of America was only capable of being brought forth through the hand of God. There needed to be a place of religious freedom for the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. The Lord inspired our Founding Fathers so they would feel the need to have more freedom from their monarch King George III. They started a revolution that was destined to occur and push America into an age of freedom. These men admitted that without the hand of God, no revolution would have ever been possible. The same goes for the organizing and writing of the Constitution.
Most colonists were concerned with ensuring that their separate colonies would get the best deal. The colonies had needed to unite in order to win the Revolutionary War. However, once the war was won, the colonies were only focused on their personal gain. They had much debt from the war with Great Britain. They were not able to pay it off as they wanted to because England set up a great number of tariffs that raised the colonists’ prices significantly. In order to raise revenue, the colonists began to tax one another. This caused a great rift between the colonies. They would need to come together in order to become the strong nation it needed to be.
James Madison studied many forms of government and determined that the only form of strong government was a government that received its power from the people and having a strong system of checks and balances. The idea of checks and balances had never before been accomplished, but Madison was determined to see the idea help America. He brought his ideas in the form of the Virginia Plan that was read to members of an organization that consisted of representatives of the colonies. These men would need to decide if the Virginia Plan would make their nation stronger.
It was a long battle. At first, the colonist were opposed to abolishing the entire Articles of Confederation, but it was decided that in order for America to become a strong nation, they needed a form of federal government. Most of the colonies were perfectly happy with a rule by the people, but the matter of equal representation disrupted much of the tranquility. Smaller colonies would no longer have equal representation as they had possessed. They were not willing to give this up. It took weeks of deliberation for the large and small colonies to reach a conclusion. They decided that if one side of Congress was formed in proportion to the population, the other could be filled with an equal representation regardless of population. However, the large states were still against this and refused to allow the equal representation part of Congress to pass. They needed a little Divine help.
In the Lord’s Council, members will go around and discuss their ideas. If they are not unanimous, they will go around again. The separate members of the council are guided by the spirit until they are in line with that the Lord would have them do. Eventually, it was Madison that told the larger states to vote for the Great Compromise. He said that as long as both sides got part of what they wanted, the government would be much stronger for it. The council that brought about the Constitution was guided to act as if it was a council of the Lord’s.
Madison was the man that received the inspiration of what the United States of America needed as its central form of government. The council that deliberated for weeks finally came to the conclusion that a compromise would do what was required to maintain a strong enough government. The Lord had a hand through it all. It is easy to see that as Americans we owe everything to our Creator, the Lord God Omnipotent.
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