 | Henry Bull (of Devizes.) - 1859 - 642 pages
...following 6th of April, Mr. Dunning the member for Calne carried his memorable resolution in the House " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," yet public interest in any specific plans of regeneration was so immediately after... | |
 | James White - Great Britain - 1860 - 874 pages
...illegal imposition. The celebrated resolution was introduced and carried in the House of Commons, " That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," and sympathy with the Americans became more widely diffused. § 10. A succession of... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1860 - 524 pages
...bring both these points fairly to issue. He first moved, " That it is the opinion of this Committee that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The resistance oflered to the motion was feeble and indirect. One of its immediate... | |
 | James White - 1860 - 874 pages
...illegal imposition. The celebrated resolution was introduced and carried in the House of Commons, " That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," and sympathy with the Americans became more widely diffused. § 10. A succession of... | |
 | Vincent Newey, Ann Thompson - History - 1991 - 316 pages
...constitutional issues that persisted throughout the reign of George III. John Dunning's famous resolution 'that the Influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished' was passed by the Commons on 6 April 1780, and the Opposition won further votes to curb... | |
 | Paul Langford - History - 1989 - 856 pages
...On 6 April John Dunning made his historic motion, unsupported by evidence but sustained by emotion, that the 'influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished': it was carried by 233 votes to 218. Charles James Fox pronounced 'that if he died that... | |
 | Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger - History - 1992 - 332 pages
...critic of her governments'. Even as late as 1879 the Commons once more debated Dunning's famous motion ' that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished'.21 If continuing royal power made grand royal ceremonial unacceptable, then renewed... | |
 | William Arthur Speck - History - 1993 - 230 pages
...advocated this approach, one of his connexion, John Dunning, moving the celebrated resolution in 1780 that 'the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished'. When the marquis came to power his secretary Edmund Burke introduced a bill which axed... | |
 | James L. Stokesbury - History - 1993 - 308 pages
...one crisis to the next. In April of 1 780, for example, the government lost the Dunning Resolution "that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished!" That was sufficiently vague to attract all the malcontents, and the resolution passed,... | |
 | Don Cook - History - 1995 - 446 pages
...solicitor general in the 1769 Grafton government, introduced a shrewd and extraordinary motion declaring that "the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished." This motion, which would have been unthinkable only a few months before, suddenly attracted... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
