 | Robert Huish - Great Britain - 1821 - 746 pages
...colonel Barre's motion for a committee of accounts, sir George Saville's motion, and others, he moved, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The objections of ministry to this were, that it was an abstract proposition, not supported... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - Constitutional history - 1821 - 344 pages
...world that has not been introduced this way. ALGERNON SIDNEY. THE celebrated resolution of 1 780, " That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," may seem to carry its own refutation along with it. A House of Commons that can vote... | |
 | 1854 - 718 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... | |
 | James Robins - Great Britain - 1824 - 490 pages
...a full answer to the petitioners. His first motion was, that it should be resolved by this House, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." This motion was warmly supported by the speaker of the House, who declared, that on... | |
 | The Westminster Review.Volume II.July-October,1824 - 1824 - 582 pages
...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 526 pages
...tending but remotely to despotism. If there be a time, in which the senate of a free country has declared that the influence of the crown " has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished;" and if, instead of a consequent diminution, there be an evident increase of that influence;... | |
 | William Jones - 1825 - 452 pages
...fixed for taking into consideration the petitions for reform, Mr Dunning moved his famous resolution, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the debate which ensued upon it, the lord-advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1826 - 1030 pages
...on the army estimates, xxiii 160] .... consideration of the petitions, xxiii 164] 189] .... motion, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, carried, xxiii 167] .,..——— it is competent to the house to correct the civil... | |
 | History - 1826 - 972 pages
...on the army estimates, xxiii 160] .... consideration of the petitions, xxiii 164] 189] .... motion, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, carried, xxiii 167] 140 141 house to correct the civil list expenditure carried, xxiii... | |
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