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Ne 10:11 there shall be no kings upon the land
¡°It
is remarkable that so few attempts have been made to establish thrones in
America. Perhaps the most substantial barrier has been the Monroe Doctrine,
although, there has, for the most part, been so little real force behind that
¡®doctrine¡¯ that its very weakness has invited more than one European monarch to
attempt to ¡®smash it.¡¯ It defied all the world to attempt to set up any
authority of their own, or to interfere with any of the independent governments
then existing in North or South America¡¦.In a word the real meaning of the Monroe
Doctrine is, ¡®Hands off¡¯ and that too, to all the world¡¦.One could imagine that
the Book of Mormon prophet might have been standing at the elbow of President
Monroe when he signed the document as it was handed to him by the Secretary of
State, John Quincy Adams. For the Monroe Doctrine is nothing more than the Book
of Mormon prophecy put in the form of a state paper. It has been tested and
tried. It has been called the ¡®most magnificent bluff in history, and so far
the most successful.¡¯ At any rate, it has stood. It has been affirmed and
re-affirmed by President after President until it is now upheld and proclaimed
as with the voice of a hundred millions of people.¡± (Nephi Lowell Morris, Prophecies
of Joseph Smith and Their Fulfillment, pp. 136-138 as taken from Latter-day
Commentary on the Book of Mormon compiled by K. Douglas Bassett, p. 125)