Sentence examples for act of settlement from inspiring English sources

Officials said amending the act of Settlement.

The Act of Settlement in 1701 secured a Protestant monarch for England, an invited Hanoverian.

Allowing royals to marry Catholics by amending the anti-Catholic Act of Settlement. 4.

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In 1689, of his own free will, he granted independence to the judiciary, a grant later given statutory permanence by the Act of Settlement (1700 01).

Act of Settlement, (June 12 , 1701, act of Parliament that, since 1701, has regulated the succession to the throne of Great Britain.

An attempt to return the Privy Council to power was made in the Act of Settlement of 1701 (Hanoverian Succession), but it proved futile.

Hence, she acquiesced to the Act of Settlement of 1701, which designated as her successors the Hanoverian descendants of King James I of England, through his daughter Elizabeth.

The Guardian believes the Act of Settlement violates article 9 of the convention, the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

In December 1999 the Scottish parliament backed unanimously a motion, spearheaded by the Scottish National party, to abolish the Act of Settlement.

The challenge to the Act of Settlement coincides with an editorial in the paper which argues for a referendum on the future of the monarchy.