John Calvin's organization of Church and State promoted respresentative democracy.?

Question

is that true?

Answer 1

Calvin's ideas did help promote representative government, but it was never his intention. Calvin believed the state should be an extension of a covenanted community of believers. He wasn't interested in popular sovereignty or in personal freedom. He abhorred them, just ask Michael Servetus. But the idea of deriving political power from a covenanted community of believers gave way to the idea of representative government.

Answer 2

I don't think that it supported democracy because pure democracy is majority rule. Instead I think it supported a representative republican state where God appoints state leaders like He does church leaders.

Romans 13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.