Mosiah 29:34
1830 Edition
And he told them that these things had not ought to be; but that the burdens should come upon all the people, that every man might bear his part.
Changes
Simple English
He told them these things should not be. The work should be shared by all the people. Every person should do their part.
Paraphrase
He told them these burdens shouldn't fall on one person. They should be shared by everyone, so each person carries their part.
Notes
"Another seemingly anachronistic issue in the Book of Mormon is a republican form of government. When the Puritans settled in the New World they drew up a document known as the Oath of a Freeman. The word 'freeman' was commonly used in Joseph Smith's day. Als, members of the Smith family had been involved in America's fight for freedom from England in 1776, and in the war of 1812. Thus the concept of liberty and freedom were part of Smith's environment....Also in Smith's day it was common to refer to America as the 'land of liberty,' a phrase found in the Book of Mormon." -Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Joseph Smith's Plagiarism of the Bible in the Book of Mormon, p. 11-12.
See also Alma 51:6-7 for use of the phrase, "freemen."
LDS author Grant Hardy writes, "In 1831, Alexander Campbell, one of the book's first critics (and certainly the first one to read it carefully), famously observed that it seemed to weigh in on all the popular religious questions of the day, including 'infant baptism, ordination, the trinity, regeneration, repentance, justification, the fall of man, the atonement, transubstantiation, fasting, penance, church government, religious experience, the call to the ministry , the general resurrection, eternal punishment, who may baptize, and even the question of freemasonry, republican government, and the right of the man.' This is a fair list, and references to these topics-or their analogous counterparts-can be found throughout the Book of Mormon." -Hardy, Understanding the Book of Mormon, p. 184