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This story appears here courtesy of TheChurchNews.com<\/a>. It is not for use by other media.<\/p>\n By David Schneider, Church News<\/a><\/p>\n As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday<\/a>, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been encouraged to learn more about moral agency and how the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence support religious liberty.<\/p>\n A discussion guide titled \u201cCelebrating the Founding of the United States and the U.S. Constitution<\/a>\u201d is available online on ChurchofJesusChrist.org<\/a>: In the Libraries tab, click on Gospel Library, then Books and Lessons, then Religious Freedom, then Celebrating Freedom and Moral Agency.<\/p>\n In a video<\/a>, President D. Todd Christofferson<\/a>, Second Counselor in the First Presidency, and Elder Quentin L. Cook<\/a> of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles discuss the importance of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and constitutional amendments that enabled the Restoration of the Church.<\/p>\n Following is a timeline of a few of the significant events in the history of the nation and of the Church. \u2002<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 Deseret News Publishing Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"bd4d9a5e1afd11ec9b75eeeeac1e708d6f427e0f.jpgThe Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.2026 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.Download…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-742159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/timeline.jpg\")
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