The Book of Mormon tells of a king named Benjamin who gave his people a form of self-rule, with a warning.

• King Benjamin who gave his people a form of self-rule, because he was old, and they knew historically that good kings were good, but bad kings were bad.
• His sons didn't want to be king and he saw that self-rule by the people was a better option long-term.
• But he gave the people a warning that when the voice of the people would choose iniquity, the judgments of God would come upon them.
• King Benjamin's warning about if the voice of the people choose iniquity
  

  "27 And if the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land."

• There are also other promises to the righteous on the American continents(s). (%%todo: add links, specifics...?)