| D&C 20: 63 | elders to receive license by vote of church. |
| D&C 20: 65-66 | vote required for ordination in church. |
| D&C 26: 2 | (D&C 28: 13) all things to be done by common consent. |
| D&C 38: 34 | men to be appointed by voice of church. |
| D&C 41: 9 | Edward Partridge to be appointed bishop by voice of church. |
| D&C 51: 4 | transgressors to be accounted unworthy by voice of church. |
| D&C 104: 21 | let all things be done by united consent. |
| D&C 104: 64, 71-72 | nothing to be taken from treasury except by voice or common consent of order. |
| D&C 124: 144 | fill all these offices and approve of those names. |