1. See A. H. Birch, Representative and Responsible Government (London, 1964) pp. 13–17 for a discussion on the different usages of the term.
2. The Social Contract (Everyman’s Library ed., London, 1913 p. 78.
3. Quoted in S. H. Beer, Modern British Politics, 2nd ed. (London, 1969) P. 5.
4. Quoted in A. D. Lindsay, The Essentials of Democracy, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1935) p. 12.
5. For a fuller account of the demands of the Levellers, especially those contained in the debates with the army leaders in 1647, see A. S. P. Woodhouse (ed.), Puritanism and Liberty (London, 1938.