Tenth: The prophet may be involved in civic matters.
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This was to cover Smith’s coveting the presidency of the United States...
His crowning himself “king of the world”...
And his unfit office of “mayor” or Nauvoo...
Let's see....Benson said that in 1980...did he know there was a Constitution? What kind of "involvement" would require a "prophet"?
Separation of church and state is a political and legal doctrine that government and religious institutions are to be kept separate and independent from each other.[1] The term most often refers to the combination of two principles: secularity of government and freedom of religious exercise.[2] The phrase separation of church and state is generally traced to the letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists, in which he referred to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as creating a "wall of separation" between church and state.[3] The phrase was then quoted by the United States Supreme Court first in 1878,[4] and then in a series of cases starting in 1948.[5] This led to increased popular and political discussion of the concept.
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