Acts of Union 1707 | Wikipedia audio article
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Acts of Union 1707


00:01:52 1 Historical background
00:02:02 1.1 Pre-1707 attempts at Union
00:03:00 1.1.1 1603–1639
00:04:38 1.1.2 1639–1670
00:08:30 1.1.3 1670–1707
00:09:55 1.2 Treaty and passage of the Acts of 1707
00:12:42 2 Political motivations
00:14:35 2.1 English perspective
00:15:46 2.2 Scottish perspective
00:19:26 3 Provisions of the Acts
00:21:11 3.1 Related Acts
00:22:09 4 Evaluations
00:23:21 5 300th anniversary
00:24:03 6 Scottish voting records
00:24:13 7 See also
00:24:45 8 Notes
00:24:54 9 Further reading
00:26:54 10 Other books
00:27:29 11 External links



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The Acts of Union were two Acts of Parliament: the Union with Scotland Act 1706 passed by the Parliament of England, and the Union with England Act passed in 1707 by the Parliament of Scotland. They put into effect the terms of the Treaty of Union that had been agreed on 22 July 1706, following negotiation between commissioners representing the parliaments of the two countries. By the two Acts, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland—which at the time were separate states with separate legislatures, but with the same monarch—were, in the words of the Treaty, "United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain".The two countries had shared a monarch since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne from his double first cousin twice removed, Queen Elizabeth I. Although described as a Union of Crowns, until 1707 there were in fact two separate Crowns resting on the same head (as opposed to the implied creation of a single Crown and a single Kingdom, exemplified by the later Kingdom of Great Britain). Prior to the Acts of Union there had been three previous attempts (in 1606, 1667, and 1689) to unite the two countries by Acts of Parliament, but it was not until the early 18th century that both political establishments came to support the idea, albeit for different reasons.
The Acts took effect on 1 May 1707. On this date, the Scottish Parliament and the English Parliament united to form the Parliament of Great Britain, based in the Palace of Westminster in London, the home of the English Parliament. Hence, the Acts are referred to as the Union of the Parliaments. On the Union, the historian Simon Schama said "What began as a hostile merger, would end in a full partnership in the most powerful going concern in the world ... it was one of the most astonishing transformations in European history."