I've seen several topics relating Mormon fair to politics recently. Given that, my question:
What do Mormons who respond consider the fundamental or primary role of government to be?
What follows is from a post of mine from another forum. The post and thread are in the staff section of a forum-not-to-be named. I repost it given some have expressed an interest in the content.
The format follows St. Thomas' Summa Theologica
(While decisions are made and the effected...