 | Marcus R. P. Dorman - 1900 - 528 pàgines
...with North as Prime Minister, was almost absolute until 1780, when the whigs passed the resolution, " that the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." Nevertheless, when Pitt, the son, introduced a Reform Bill, the King said it would... | |
 | Henry Sidgwick - 1903 - 494 pàgines
...hundred years after the Glorious Revolution — a resolution was proposed in the House of Commons " that the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." It is only for a comparatively brief period in the middle of the eighteenth century... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1903 - 432 pàgines
...short time before our Constitution was made, that the Dunning resolution was carried in Parliament that "the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." George III.'s temporary personal power, from 1760 to 1783, led our fathers to overestimate... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1904 - 492 pàgines
...undamaged. I was much obliged to you, and am Yours ever, HW 2274. To THE EEV. WILLIAM MASON. Feb. 23, 1782. THE power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished : very true, and it is diminished, a good deal indeed, if it valued the extent to which... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1904 - 484 pàgines
...undamaged. I was much obliged to you, and am Yours ever, HW 2274. To THE EEV. WILLIAM MASON. Feb. 23, 1782. THE power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished : very true, and it is diminished, a good deal indeed, if it valued the extent to which... | |
 | Cyril Ransome - 1906 - 398 pàgines
...riots against concessions to the Catholics. 1781. 1782. LORD ROCKINOHAM. Dunning carries his motion, "that the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished " by 233 to 215. The English under Lord Cornwallis defeat the colonists at Camden, and... | |
 | Arthur Donald Innes - 1908 - 672 pàgines
...agitation was that, in connexion with it, the Opposition succeeded in carrying Cunning's Resolution (1780) that "the Power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The surrender of Yorktown, in 1781, was followed by the resignation of North in March,... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - 1911 - 460 pàgines
...assumed office in 1770, a member of the House of Commons moved that ' it is the opinion of this committee that the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ' ; and the resolution was carried. The power of the king was never again supreme in... | |
 | Cyril Ransome - 1911 - 1122 pàgines
...Indians. Thwarted in this way, Dunning, on behalf of the Rockingham Whigs, brought forward a motion that 'the power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.' Being brought forward without notice, the proposal took the ministers by surprise,... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - 1912 - 500 pàgines
...assumed office in 1770, a member of the House of Commons moved that ' it is the opinion of this committee that the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ' ; and the resolution was carried. The power of the king was never again supreme in... | |
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