James Madison said this: "But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary." The peculiar thing about government is that, in providing a better way of life for the people by unifiying them under a government system, it also creates an opportunity for men to corrupt themselves with power.
Madison proposes several thing in his Federalist papers. He states, "A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government..." Primary control is given to the people in a democracy, however, "experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions." This is because men have the ability to take power and trample over the rights of each other when soley left to popular choice, thus the need for a second group to have power in order that the two bodies can balance each other. Primary control is where most of the power lies, but auxiliary precautions are precautionary measures to ensure that the voice of the people (the primary control) does not run rampant with their power. Auxiliary precautions are seen in the way in which our government is instructed to set up laws. There is a process for passing a law, this process makes it very hard to create change, which allows small parties time and ability to assert that their rights are maintained and not trampled on by large factions that rise in power.

The US Constitution Was Divinely Inspired

President Kimball, in his talk on the constitution stated that "Charles Pinckney, a very active participant and author of the Pinckney Plan during the Convention, said: “When the great work was done and published, I was struck with amazement. Nothing less than the superintending Hand of Providence, that so miraculously carried us through the war … could have brought it about so complete, upon the whole” (Essays on the Constitution, p. 412).

He also quoted Alexander Hamilton. who said, “For my own part, I sincerely esteem it a system, which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interest” (Essays on the Constitution of the United States, ed. Paul L. Ford, 1892, pp. 251–52).

And to quote another member of the convention, President Kimball spoke of James Madison who said: “It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution” (The Federalist, no. 37, ed. Henry Cabot Lodge, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1983, p. 222).

Though theses men and the men who were involved with the creation of the  US Constitution, all believed there was more than just man's brain hard at work to create the great constitution of our country. Most even believed that because they were using their wise minds which they had cultivated for themselves from many years of study and meditation, that they were indeed helping to aid in showing forth God's hand in the workings of man. Scripture accounts from the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ also refer to this land and how it has been set aside to be a country of liberty and freedom.

An ancient prophet of america, Lehi. was accredited to saying “It is wisdom that this land should be kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations, for behold, many nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for an inheritance” (2 Ne. 1:8). And then many hundred years after Lehi, when Jesus himself appeared to the ancient people of the Americas after his resurrection, He said “For it is wisdom in the Father that they should be established in this land, and be set up as a free people by the power of the Father, that these things might come forth” (3 Ne. 21:4) speaking of this land and the liberty that would be fought for.

The constitution was divinely inspired to be a set of guidelines for future inhabitants of this land to live by so that no tyrannical ruler could usurp authority over the free people of this land.