 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 536 pagina’s
...integrity, moved a resolution which was carried against the minister by a considerable majority,—' That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.' This is a full recognition on record of the existence of that evil which the principle... | |
 | 1852 - 168 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 1042 pagina’s
...were issued that the guards should be kept in readiness. On the same evening, Mr. Dunning moved in the Commons, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished — a motion, that, after a vehement debate, was carried at midnight by a majority of... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 518 pagina’s
...his parliamentary efforts, " that it is the opinion of this committee that it is necessary to declare that the influence of 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 which... | |
 | Charles James Fox, Earl John Russell Russell - 1853 - 570 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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,... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, •and ought to be diminished ? 
