“Mosiah 29 is not a treatise about the superiority of democracy over kingship, but a discussion of fundamental principles of government that should be protected in any form of government. … Elder Bruce R. McConkie pointed out that religion must be free from any earthly power and subject only to the powers of heaven if it is to have saving power. Thus, governments that inhibit freedom of religion, freedom of worship, and the freedom to choose one’s own course curtail and even prevent the choice-making that leads us to salvation” (Edwards, “Kingdom of God and the Kingdoms of Men,” 278–79).