Cultural: The transference of political power in Nephite society continues to follow kinship lines, even this long after the establishment of the reign of the judges. In spite of the mechanism of the voice of the people, the typical transferal of the chief judge’s seat was from father to son. We have this obvious case here. We also have an interesting trend in recent father/son naming sets in the Book of Mormon, where a significantly higher percentage of father/son sets have the same name. There is no way to know if this was representative of a larger trend in Nephite society at the time, or a simple coincidence.