Political: Mormon clearly understands the relationship between internal and external contention. External wars are always draining on the resolves of a community, but when that community is united the support for the military campaigns is greater. When an external threat is combined with internal unrest, however, we have the most dangerous of conditions, a people who must defend themselves from themselves as well as from outsiders. It becomes even more serious when the faction creating the internal contention is sympathetic with those causing the outside contentions. In this case, the kingmen certainly have much in common with Amalickiah, who is the quintessential Kingman.