"...It should not be surprising, therefore, to learn that opposition to Britain’s monarchical claims arose first from Calvinists, who believed that real sovereignty belonged exclusively to God..."
Jean
"Throughout the carefully ordered separation of powers with checks and balances, deliberately restraining a more unified operation of government, we see a reflection of the Calvinist doctrine of the fallenness of human nature, with its inevitable tendency of an ascendant arm of government to abuse power in a tyrannical direction."
"Americans in 1776 wanted governors limited and their powers divvied up. The reason for this rested in man’s untrustworthiness. Had Americans believed in the innate goodness of man, the Declaration would have looked substantially different than it did growing in a Calvinistic garden."
Bump!