 | Kenneth O. Morgan - History - 2000 - 724 pages
...notwithstanding the weight of vested interests in and out of government, passed a resolution declaring that the 'influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished'. This was the signal for almost five years of intense political controversy and sustained... | |
 | William Simpson, Martin Desmond Jones - History - 2000 - 410 pages
...History, London, Routledge, 1995, p. 67). At the other extreme, a British House of Commons voted in 1780 that 'the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished.' But except across the Atlantic where the American colonists took pride in establishing... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - History - 2000 - 600 pages
...The same month, in the Commons, Brougham's curiously atavistic repeat of Cunning's motion of 1780, 'the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished', failed by the comfortable margin of 216 to tor. 61 Religion, not representation, was... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
