Mormon priesthood revelation and personal revelation works on the principle of dominion. The Church president receives revelation for the Church, the stake president for stake, the husband for the wife and children, and so forth and so on.
Avatar, I understand fully how priesthood revelation and authority works. That is how priesthood dominion dominated the Utah Legislature of decades and still does at times even today.
tinydancer, here is a quote that most LDS members ignore to their own damage.
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Monday School
"Do not, brethren, put your trust in man though he be a bishop, an apostle, or a president: if you do, they will fail you at some time or place; they will do wrong or seem to, and your support be gone; but if we lean on God, He will never fail us. When men and women depend on God alone, and trust in Him alone, their faith will not be shaken if the highest in the Church should step aside. They could still see that He is just and true, that truth is lovely in His sight, and the pure in heart are dear to Him.
Perhaps it is His own design that faults and weaknesses should appear in high places in order that His saints may learn to trust in Him, and not in any man or men."
- George Q. Cannon, 1891 [1st Counselor to President Wilford Woodruff]