There are two things I wonder about the reasoning of Mosiah. The first is his reasoning behind granting Alma judgement over the people of the church. Modish clearly has justification over all his subjects so why did he determine that members of the church could be judged within the church parallel to the secular law? I wonder if he was deferring to the older and more experienced Alma? Did he hope to increase the legitimacy of the ecclesiastical leaders by granting them judicial jurisdiction over the members of the church? Was he trying to open his own judicial workload?
The second area where i wonder about the reasoning of Mosiah’s is in changing their form of government. What factors did he consider in proposing the change? He laid out the factors of not risking the danger of a wicked king and of the burden of kingship. Did he also consider the readiness of his people for self-governance? I personally imagine that he must have and that he recognized that they were ready for such a form of government.
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