The Law, Government, Liberty and The Way

Most monuments on Temple Square recall the Restoration or the pioneers; this 1968 one makes an argument instead. Standing before the Salt Lake Temple, its four inscribed panels — The Law, Government, Liberty, and The Way — lay out a Latter-day Saint vision of freedom, binding divine law and civil government to liberty and, finally, to Christ as "the way." It belongs to an era when church leaders taught the U.S. Constitution as divinely inspired — the rare Temple Square marker that reads less like remembrance than a statement of belief about how a free society should be ordered.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temple Square — steps away
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Salt Lake City — steps away
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Ensign Peak — 1.4 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley
• Liberty Park — 2.0 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• Restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood Mon. — steps away
• The Testimony of Three Witnesses — steps away
• Hyrum Smith — steps away
• Joseph Smith — steps away