...and the consideration in parliament of a series of questions typified by the famous proposition, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," must also be allowed as some apology for a not very vigorous, a not very national,...

...their intended motions. The very first, made by Mr. Dunning, was a thundering one : the words were, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The walls could not believe their own ears ; they had not heard such language since...

...other schemes of reform — the cause which is mentioned in the celebrated resolution of Dunning : " That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." " This resolution," says Mr. Macknight, " expressed in a single sentence the moral...

...their intended motions. The very first, made by Mr. Dunning, was a thundering one : the words were, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The walls could not believe their own ears ; they had not heard such language since...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...