 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 818 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 546 pages
...raised up a formidable opposition. (April 6th.) At length Mr. Dunning moved his celebrated resolution, " that the influence of the crown has increased is increasing, and ought to be diminished," which was-carried by a majority of twenty-eight votes ; but a second re solution, designed... | |
 | Peter H. Marshall - 1984 - 518 pages
...of State sinecures, places and pensions. ln April 1780 the MPJohn Dunning put down his famous motion that 'the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished'.2 The more radical Society for Constitutional lnformation, led byJohnJebb, Major Cartwright... | |
 | Christopher Haigh - 1990 - 400 pages
...blame the Commons for encroaching upon his prerogative, while his critics were inclined to the view "that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished". Indeed the period ends with a clash between Crown and Commons over this very issue.... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 1986 - 200 pages
...quite suddenly) the structure collapsed.33 If so, it might seem that Cunning's famous motion of 1780, that 'the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished' is evidence rather for the beginning of the erosion of the monarchy's position than... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 pages
...grow in the minds of the half-informed and of those who wish to be deceived." 22. This resolution, that "the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," was carried by a vote of 233 to 215, with Gibbon voting against it. Dunning's support... | |
 | Margaret Levi - 1989 - 261 pages
...John Dunning argued:7 1 . 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. 2. That it is competent to this House, to examine into and to correct, abuses in the... | |
 | Vincent Newey, Ann Thompson - 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... | |
 | Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger - 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... | |
 | Paul Langford - 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... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
