 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1821 - 536 páginas
...principal danger to which the liberties of England were exposed. The cry has long been a popular one, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. I am satisfied, however, that this supposed balance is a vain imagination, and of course... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1821 - 746 páginas
...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 - 1821 - 344 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | The Westminster Review.Volume II.July-October,1824 - 1824 - 582 páginas
...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 páginas
...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;... | |
 | James Robins - 1824 - 490 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Jones - 1825 - 452 páginas
...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 - 1826 - 1030 páginas
...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 422 páginas
...parties; while agreements beget personal union and party confederacies. XXXIII. Men who honestly think that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, and who believe that civil liberty is the greatest social blessing, will vote on all... | |
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