The Act of Settlement is an Act of the Parliament of England. Anyone who becomes a Roman Catholic, or who marries a Roman Catholic, becomes disqualified to inherit the throne under the Act of Settlement. England and Scotland had shared a monarch since 1603, but had remained separately governed countries. English pressure on Scotland to accept the Act of Settlement led to the parliamentary union of the two countries in 1707. Along with the Bill of Rights 1689, the Act of Settlement remains today one of the main constitutional laws governing the succession not only to the throne of the United Kingdom, but also to those of the other Commonwealth realms, whether by assumption or by patriation. The original documents are currently situated in the Lower Saxon State Archives Hanover, Germany.
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