"The Parliamentary procedure of 1844 was essentially the procedure on which the House of Commons conducted its business during the Long Parliament."[63] With Charles II.

on the throne the absolutism of the Crown over Parliament passed for ever from England.

Cromwell had set up the supremacy of the army over the Commons: this, too, was gone, never to be restored.
Henceforth government was to be by King, Lords, and Commons; but sovereignty was to reside in Parliament.

Not till a century later would democracy again be heard of, and its merits urged, as Lilburne had urged them under the Commonwealth.
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