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‘Mormon Land’: A ‘divinely inspired’ Constitution — where such talk began and why it matters now

Amid the Jan. 6 hearings, a religious scholar discusses why early Latter-day Saints put so much faith in the nation’s founding document and how their views — from Joseph Smith to Ezra Taft Benson to Dallin H. Oaks — have evolved.

(Doug Mills | The New York Times) Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., swears in Rusty Bowers, Arizona House speaker; Brad Raffensperger, Georgia secretary of state; and Gabe Sterling, Georgia deputy secretary of state, as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a yearlong investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 21, 2022.