 | Christa Jungnickel, Russell K. McCormmach, Russell McCormmach - 1996 - 414 sivua
...Present (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983), 128-29. 248 249 parliamentary majority, asserted: "That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished."10 The years 1783-84, it has been argued, witnessed the greatest political crisis in... | |
 | Nicholas K. Robinson - 1996 - 214 sivua
...Dunning, their legal luminary, who had galvanised the opposition by moving his famous resolution in 1780, 'that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished'.) Ciillray. in one ot his most celebrated early prints, depicts Burke as (jiiiinihititf... | |
 | Jerome R. Reich - 1997
...North's objections, the House of Commons approved, by a majority of eighteen, John Cunning's resolution "that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." After midnight, the House also agreed that it was "competent ... to examine into, and... | |
 | John Ph. D. Gascoigne, Neil Tranter, John Gascoigne - 1998 - 247 sivua
...OF ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM When the House of Commons passed the motion moved by John Dunning in 1780 that 'the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished'1 he was testifying both to the increasing distrust of the power of the executive and... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - 1999 - 520 sivua
...favour of parliamentary reform, proceed upon the belief of Mr. Dunning's or Mr. Burke 's famous motion, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished. Whether that position was true when the motion was made and carried, might with great... | |
 | William Simpson, Martin Desmond Jones - 2000 - 388 sivua
...History, London, Routledge, 1995, p. 67). At the other extreme, a British House of Commons voted in 1780 that 'the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished.' But except across the Atlantic where the American colonists took pride in establishing... | |
 | Kenneth O. Morgan - 2000 - 646 sivua
...notwithstanding the weight of vested interests in and out of government, passed a resolution declaring that the 'influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished'. This was the signal for almost five years of intense political controversy and sustained... | |
 | Jonathan Charles Douglas Clark, J. C. D. Clark - 2000 - 580 sivua
...The same month, in the Commons, Brougham's curiously atavistic repeat of Cunning's motion of 1780, 'the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished', failed by the comfortable margin of 216 to tor. 61 Religion, not representation, was... | |
 | Samuel B. Griffith - 2002 - 725 sivua
...very first," Walpole wrote Mann, was made by Mr. Dunning and "was a thundering one. The words were: That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.' The walls could not believe their own ears." Dunning followed with a motion urging minute examination of... | |
 | Philip T. Hoffman, Kathryn Norberg - 2002 - 408 sivua
...confidence had been misplaced that gave Dunning's celebrated resolution of 6 April 1780 its force: that "the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," indicated a need for a restoration of the balance.76 The consequences of the establishment... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
