 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...long urged, am! succeeded at last in passing, the celebrated resolution drawn ир by Mr. Dunning, "That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be dimim-tlicd." He applies this principle very happily to the present case, by showing that the Commissioners... | |
 | 1852 - 168 pages
...Have we not long outlived the time when the House of Commons thought fit to pass a resolution — " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ?" Is it from that quarter, from the exercise of the royal prerogative, that any man,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 516 pages
...be regarded as the greatest of his parliamentary efforts, " that it is the opinion of this committee that it is necessary to declare that the influence...the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the session of 1780—81, the legality of the various associations and societies... | |
 | Charles James Fox, Earl John Russell Russell - 1853 - 570 pages
...there was not the least tumult." " In Committee of Commons, Dunning opened the debate, by a motion, ' That the Influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished' The Ministers were greatly embarrassed, and had no subterfuge but their old hackneyed... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...sentiments which the Whigs expressed in their celebrated resolution (drawn up by Mr. Dunning himself), that " the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and OUGHT то BE DIMIN1 The reader will be iutcrested in the following beautiful tribute to the memory of Lord... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...Commons. The first decided symptom of this change was the result of the famous motion of Dunning, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," which, after a hot debate, was carried, on the 6th of April, 1780, by 233 to 215 votes.... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 460 pages
...voting the words which he concluded with moving: — "That " it is the opinion of this Committee , that the influence of the "Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be "diminished." * Annual Register, 1780, p. 165. Sir Fletcher Norton, full of spleen against Lord... | |
 | Luther Stearns Cushing - 1854 - 204 pages
...1780, Mr. Dunning having made a motion, in the houso of commons, {L that, in the opinion of this house, the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," Dundas, lord-advocate of Scotland, in order to defeat the motion, proposed to amend,... | |
 | Frederick Grimké - 1856 - 680 pages
...since the memorable resolution introduced into the house of commons in the early part of this century, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished. It has exercised the minds of great numbers who had hitherto kept aloof from such speculations.... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...sentiments which the Whigs expressed in their celebrated resolution (drawn up by Mr. Dunning himself), that " the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and OUGHT TO BE DIMIN3 The reader will be interested in the following beautiful tribute to the memory of Lord Ashburton... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
