text:  No matter whether it was the Puritan who complained of the rags of popery or the judge who questioned the prerogative of the sovereign or the patriot who bewailed the profligate expenditure of James's polluted court or the pamphleteer whom one of our dramatists has described so admirably or the hoarse murmur of the crowd execrating the pusillanimous murder of Raleigh--whosesoever the voice might be whatever shape it might assume petition controversy remonstrance address impeachment libel menace insurrection the language it spoke was uniform and unequivocal; it demanded for the people a share in the administration of their government civil and ecclesiastical--it expressed their determination to make the House of Commons a reality