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Cleon Skousen wrote:From the book, "The Majesty of God's Law"

In 1967 a great leader whom I admired and loved (President David O. McKay) said that a crisis was coming to America and the legal minds of the nation were not getting ready to deal with it.

He indicated to me that the Founding Fathers knew this would happen and they knew what to do about it. He suggested to me, as he had to many other lawyers of his acquaintance, that I take time to get acquainted with the things the Founders knew.

This dear friend died in 1970 and by that time I had just begun to realize some profound and inspiring things about the Founders I had never known before…

For the sake of the skeptic who might doubt that such an earthly paradise might ever be possible, I have cited in this book several instances when it actually happened, and most amazingly, a prophecy that it is going to happen again in modern times.

In this sense The Majesty of God's Law is a book for Americans about America. In the dark hours through which the nation is now passing, there is a tangible shaft of light and hope. The Founders knew about it and only regretted that it would not happen in their day. But it could happen in our day -- after the cleansing.

... Thomas Jefferson carefully compared the constitution of the Israelites with the laws of the Anglo-Saxons which were almost identical.

... the Founders were using the divine science of government revealed to the Israelites.

... These people were the Anglo-Saxons.

... Jefferson not only studied everything he could find out about these people who were the ancestors of most of the colonists, but he devoted many months to learning how to read the Anglo-Saxon language so that he could study their ancient principles of law and government from their original writings.

... Where Did the Anglo-Saxons Come From?

According to the Saga(s) from the Anglo-Saxon oral history in Iceland, this people had originally lived in large numbers around the Black Sea until the first century BC. (This is the general area where the lost Ten Tribes of Israel lived until they disappeared.)

Their oral history, songs and tradition say that as a result of this migration they eventually settled in Germany and the Scandinavian countries.

... Important to Jefferson (w)as the exciting fact that for centuries these people had been practicing many of the principles of government and law which God had given to Moses.

Impressed Jefferson … the fact that everywhere the Anglo-Saxons went, they established the highest order of government and law.

Professor Gilbert Chinard, one of the distinguished biographers of Jefferson states:

"Jefferson's great ambition at that time was to promote a renaissance of Anglo-Saxon primitive institutions on the new continent. Thus presented, the American Revolution was nothing but the reclamation of the Anglo-Saxon birthright of which the colonists had been deprived by a `long train of abuses.'

... On August 13, 1776, Jefferson wrote to Edmund Pendleton of the Virginia legislature to urge him to help abolish the remnants of feudalism, and return to the "ancient principles" which carry with them a promise from God. He wrote:

"Are we not better for what we have hitherto abolished of the feudal system? Had not every restitution of the ancient Saxon laws had happy effect? Is it not better now that we return at once into that happy system of our ancestors, the wisest and most perfect and most perfect ever devised by the wit of man, as it stood before the eighth century."

But, of course, Jefferson was far ahead of his time -- perhaps a couple of centuries or more. But eventually, he knew it had to happen.

Bruce Wydner wrote:The following is what Cleon Skousen told me were President McKay's words to him.

"Brother Skousen, our people are becoming slaves; they are falling for the same old lures and tricks that all of the rest of the world is; I want you to go down to Provo and work on how our people can WORK together BY THE LAW.’”

To this Cleon responded: "Can't the University do it?"

At that Cleon said that David O. McKay lowered his head, shook his head, and said: "No, they don't have the vision."

To this statement of David O. McKay, Cleon responded: "But, what can I do?"

At this point Cleon said to me: "He (meaning David O. McKay) prophesied to me. He said, 'You go down there and the way will open up. '"

Then, with a twinkle in his eye, Cleon said: "You know, this (meaning my book "The Story of Our Law For Little Children") is probably it!" (meaning that which would open up the way to let right-minded LDS people and other Americans, again, "work together by the Law.")