---
title: 'America’s Debt to Calvinism'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Egbert Watson Smith'
date: 1915-03-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Calvinism (Historical)'
- 'American Presbyterian and Reformed History'
- 'Reformation History'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 8'
- 'Ephesians 1'
- 'Galatians 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/smith-1915-americas-debt-to-calvinism
---

# America’s Debt to Calvinism

Argues that Calvinism shaped American political and religious liberty, promoting human equality, church self-government, and the democratic spirit foundational to the Republic.

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