The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 (Modern Wars In Perspective)

In words that still ring in our ears after more than three-and-a-half centures he [Thomas Rainborowe] proclaimed:

"The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he … I think it’s clear, that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under."