[daniel1212]

George Bancroft, History of the United States, Vol.4, p.81: Protestantism, in the sphere of politics, had hitherto been the representative of that increase of popular liberty which had grown out of free inquiry, while the Catholic church, under the early influence of Roman law and the temporal sovereignty of the Roman pontiff, had inclined to monarchical power. More and More..

[Diamond]

Thank you for the links. For the record, George Bancroft was not a Calvinist, but it is interesting to note that when an historian such as Bancroft is quoted here the only papist response thus far consisted of an Alinskyite type insult accompanied by a link to a 67 page tract by an obscure lunatic whose thesis was that John Calvin was the true father of communism. Go figure.

Cordially,