Context: Consistent with Calvin's political ideas, Protestants created both the English and the American democracies. In seventeenth-century England, the most important persons and events in this process were the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, John Locke, the Glorious Revolution, the English Bill of Rights, and the Act of Settlement. Later, the British took their democratic ideals to their colonies, e.g. Australia, New Zealand, and India. In North America, Plymouth Colony (Pilgrim Fathers; 1620) and Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628) practised democratic self-rule and separation of powers. These Congregationalists were convinced that the democratic form of government was the will of God. The Mayflower Compact was a social contract.

Question: Whose democracies were created by Protestants?
Answer: the English and the American democracies

Question: Other than the U.S., to what colonies did the British export their democratic beliefs?
Answer: Australia, New Zealand, and India

Question: What democratic principles were followed by the Plymouth Colony?
Answer: self-rule and separation of powers

Question: What group believed that democracy was the will of God?
Answer: Congregationalists

Question: What other group in America practiced self-rule and separation of powers?
Answer: Massachusetts Bay Colony