Vox populi education. With increasing public familiarity with the term, several radio and television programs have been named "vox pop" in allusion to this practice. The Latin phrase (), 'The voice of the people [is] the voice of God', is an old proverb. An early reference to the expression is in a letter from Alcuin to Charlemagne in 798. The full quotation from Alcuin reads: English translation: This passage indicates that already by the end of the eighth century the phrase had become an aphorism of political common wisdom. Writing in the early 12th century, William of Malmesbury refers to the saying
Vox Clamantis of Viterbo, or the author of "Speculum Stultorum." "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" ("A voice of one crying in the wilderness") alludes to the Vulgate translation of the Gospel of Mark and of the Gospel of John (where the voice is that of John the Baptist), quoting the Book of Isaiah . Vox Clamantis Vox Clamantis ("the voice of one crying out") is a Latin poem of around 10,000 lines in elegiac verse by John Gower that recounts the events and tragedy of the 1381 Peasants' Rising. The poem takes aim at the corruption of society and laments the rise of