 | Christopher Vincenzi - 1998 - 352 pàgines
...Control In a famous motion proposed by John Dunning, the House of Commons declared on 3 April 1780 that 'the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished'. Dunning's motion did not refer to the monarch whose inept intervention had contributed... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pàgines
...Dimmycratic Ticket. DUNNING John (Baron Ashburton) 1731-1783 3108 (motlon in the House of Commons) n who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. 5027 Every m be diminished. DUNSANYLord 19063109 It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and... | |
 | Drummond Bone - 2004 - 340 pàgines
...classic formulation of party principle was John Dunning's motion passed in the House of Commons (1780): 'The power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.' Famous among Byron's older contemporaries had been the case of the Whig hero, John... | |
 | J. R. Seeley - 2005 - 397 pàgines
...of the Crown. In the middle of George Ill's reign a resolution was proposed in the House of Commons that "the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." Nearly a century after the Rerolution this resolution was proposed, and it might have... | |
 | Evans, Mary - 2006 - 146 pàgines
...England the writer Edmund Burke (1729-97), himself once a proponent of the Dunning Resolution of 1780 that 'the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished', was appalled by the Revolution in France and expressed these views in 1790 in Reflections... | |
 | Viscount James Bryce - 2007 - 741 pàgines
...predecessors had been Germans by language am! hahiln n.~s well as by blood* thinning's famous resolution, that "the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," * The greatest problem that free peoples have to solve is how to enable the citizens... | |
 | 1004 pàgines
...great jealousy of the executive was felt at that time. It was expressed by Dunning's famous motion, "That the power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished". If to the ordinary patronage of the crown were added the patronage of India, would... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1854 - 632 pàgines
...somewhat surprising from the Whigs — the same party that carried Mr. Dunning's celebrated resolution that ' the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished* — a vote equally factious and absurd, for its very success proved its falsity ; but... | |
 | 644 pàgines
...great jealousy of the executive was felt at that time. It was expressed by Dunning's famous motion, "That the power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished". If to the ordinary patronage of the crown were added the patronage of India, would... | |
 | 468 pàgines
...great jealousy of the executive was felt at that time. It was expressed by Dunning's famous motion, "That the power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished". If to the ordinary patronage of the crown were added the patronage of India, would... | |
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