...king's arbitrary course. Finally Dunning moved and carried this resolution (1780) in the Commons : " Resolved, that the power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." This vigorous proposition came too late to affect the conduct of the war, and England...

...freeholders of Yorkshire, they won their first parliamentary triumph, for in that year Dnnning's motion, ''that the power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," was carried by two hundred and thirty-three to two hundred and fifteen. The next year...

...support of his great name and character to Dunning's resolution " That in the opinion of the House, the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." Fox was dismissed from office in 1772. At this time the American question, whose solution...

...expenditure in corruption. In the Commons, Dunning succeeded in carrying against ministers a resolution that " the power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." Burke brought in an Economic Reform Bill which passed the second reading, and was only...

...apparent, the Whigs gathered strength in Parliament. In 1780 a resolution was carried in the Commons " that the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The next year Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington. Upon the news of this disaster...

...the Crown. In the middle of George III.'s reign a T 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 Revolution this resolution was proposed, and it might have...

...Greville Act, relating to the method of trying election petitions. On the celebrated motion of 178o, "That the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," Colchester was again silent. At the election of 178o, Charles Gray, probably on account...

...old resolution of the House of Commons, moved by Mr. Dunning, is applicable here : " The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In this spirit we must put a curb on the President, now maintaining illegitimate power by removals from...

...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...

...Yorkshire petition for economical reform, in Burke's Bill to further the same object, in Dunning's motion " that the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," and in the Duke of Richmond's Reform Bill advocating annual Parliaments, manhood suffrage,...