Act of Security 1704
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act-of-security-1704-165-3558518
title:
Act of Security 1704
text:
The Act of Security 1704 was a response by the Parliament of Scotland to the Parliament of England's Act of Settlement 1701. Queen Anne's last surviving child, William, Duke of Gloucester, had died in 1700, and both parliaments needed to find a Protestant successor. The English Parliament had settled on Electress Sophia of Hanover, granddaughter of King James VI and I, without consulting the Scottish Parliament. The response of the Scottish Parliament was to pass a bill in 1703 requiring that, o
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Act of the pre-Union Parliament of Scotland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Security_1704
date created:
2003-11-15T02:45:11Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T11:27:22Z
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