H. Verlan Andersen - Political Views

Political Views

Andersen was a supporter of the original intent of the U.S. Constitution, and a staunch anti-communist.

"As originally interpreted, the United States Constitution denied government the right to regulate and control the citizen in the use of his property. Over the years the commerce clause and the general welfare clause have been so interpreted as to permit both the state and Federal governments to regiment labor, agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, communication, finance and all other forms of economic activity. Today, if there is any limit on the power of government to regulate, no one knows what that limit is."(Many Are Called But Few Are Chosen)

Andersen also warned that citizens in general, and members of his own church were being seduced into accepting principles of socialism, which he believed uses the police power of government to take money from one class of citizen to service another class.(The Book of Mormon and the Constitution)

He taught at the Business College at Brigham Young University. His son records that "the first day of class he would give his students an ungraded questionnaire of 25-30 questions to get their beliefs regarding the proper role of government. Unknown to the students, the questions included the famous 10 points of Marx's Communist Manifesto of 1848. To his surprise, the students, on average, accepted 2/3 of Marx's plans to destroy a capitalist society."