 | Financial Reform Association (Liverpool, England) - Finance - 1851 - 600 pages
...called to office, Mr. Dunning, a barrister, moved in the House of Commons his celebrated resolution, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." This was carried by a majority of 233 against 215. The minority imputed to the majority... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 536 pages
...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... | |
 | Elections - 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,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 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... | |
 | 1853 - 1042 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles James Fox, Earl John Russell Russell - Great Britain - 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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 518 pages
...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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Orators - 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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 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.... | |
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