But the Lord would not allow them to fail. Unknown to the Founding Fathers, Nephi has seen their plight in vision and recorded “And it came to pass that I Nephi, beheld that the Gentiles who had gone forth out of captivity did humble themselves before the Lord; and the power of the Lord was with them. And I beheld that their mother Gentiles were gathered together upon the waters, and upon the land also, to battle against them. And I beheld that the power of God was with them, and also that the wrath of God was upon all those that were gathered together against them to battle. And I, Nephi, beheld that the Gentiles that had gone out of captivity were delivered by the power of God out of the hands of all other nations” (1 Ne 13:16-19).

            Following their deliverance from the Gentiles the Spirit of the Lord continued to work on America’s founders, especially upon James Madison, Father of America’s Constitution. Madison, along with a few others, called for a constitutional convention where the Articles of Confederation, which had governed the states through the war years, were set aside and a new Constitution was created “by the hands of wise men whom I [God] raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the shedding of blood”(D&C 101:80), a Constitution supporting those “principle[s] of freedom in maintaining [the] rights and privileges [of the people], belongs to all mankind . . .” (D&C 98:5).

             As those “wise men” completed their unique document Gouverneur Morris added a preamble that begins with “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union . . .” These words are similar to “by the voice of the people,” the words used by Helaman to define the works of the “freemen” who “had sworn or covenanted to maintain their rights and the privileges of their religion by a free government” (Alma 51:7), or Helaman’s words used to describe what Moroni wrote on his rent coat, “In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children” after which he raised a “Title of Liberty” and “planted the standard of liberty among the Nephites” (Alma 46).