...begun to go down; as early as 1780 the House of Commons passed an often-quoted resolution, declaring that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. After Yorktown the attack was pushed with new vigor, and by March, 1782, the House of Commons had committed...

...the general provisions of this bill will confer upon him. It was said in England thirty years ago, that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing and ought to be diminished. The same may be said of the patronage of the American Executive; and shall we, instead of diminishing,...

...much as Burke had regarded him — as the fount of corruption ; they still believed that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished ; and they fancied that they detected a growth in the Crown's control of patronage at the expense of...

...general principle, and on 6 April Dunning carried by 233 votes to 215 his motion that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing and ought to be diminished. The hollowness of this famous victory was demonstrated as soon as the House resumed discussion of specific...

...demonstrate trends and to suggest that the parrot cry in the eighteenth century that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, served to mask the fact that it was the influence of the nobility that was increasing. I doubt whether...

...unsympathetic too. Sir Laurence was furious and took the opportunity of the famous Commons resolution that the power of the Crown 'had increased, was increasing and ought to be diminished' to cross the floor of the House and vote with the King's unfriends. Loyal Edinburgh was shocked and,...

...as the seventeenth century had experienced it— had been effectively solved, but that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. This emphasis on informal as opposed to formal power is one of the pillars of late-twentieth-century...

...of the ministry and most famous for his resolution in Parliament on 6 April 1780 that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. N th: Frederick North, first lord of the Treasury and thus head of the governing ministry, 10 February...

...Thoughts on the Present Discontents in 177o to the "Speech on Economical Reform" of 178o, Burke believed that the power of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. But starting in 1 789 he becomes an out-and-out defender of monarchy as an institution that ought to...

...of the ministry and most famous for his resolution in Parliament on 6 April 1780 that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. N—th: Frederick North (1732-1792), First Lord of the Treasury and thus head of the governing ministry,...