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The 21 pages that link to Act of Settlement 1701, each with the reason it gives.

• Glorious RevolutionRelated: It extended the revolution’s settlement by securing a Protestant succession.

• Acts of Union 1707Related: It exposed the risk that England and Scotland might choose different monarchs after Queen Anne.

• James II of EnglandRelated: It extended the settlement that had excluded James and his Catholic heirs from the throne.

• PrimogenitureRelated: It combined hereditary succession with statutory limits on who could inherit the throne.

• Westminster systemRelated: It helped consolidate the constitutional limits within which ministers governed.

• JacobitismRelated: Its succession rules deepened the dispute over who could lawfully inherit the crown.

• William III of EnglandRelated: It secured a Protestant succession as William's reign neared its end.

• British monarchyRelated: It fixed succession rules that still shape the British monarchy’s hereditary character.

• Bill of Rights 1689Related: It extended the succession settlement begun by the Bill of Rights.

• George II of Great BritainRelated: It provided the legal basis for the Hanoverian succession George II inherited.

• Jacobite rising of 1745Related: Its succession rules made the Stuart claim incompatible with the established Protestant settlement.

• Whig PartyRelated: Whig support for the Hanoverian succession shaped the monarchy’s future.

• George I of Great BritainRelated: It made George I eligible despite his distant place in the royal family.

• Queen AnneRelated: It determined who would inherit after Anne, whose children had all died before her.

• Ministerial responsibilityRelated: Its provisions helped reinforce the principle that royal acts required ministerial advice.

• James Francis Edward StuartRelated: It excluded James and his Catholic heirs from the legally defined succession.

• Parliament of Great BritainRelated: Succession and security concerns helped drive Scotland and England toward union.

• Test ActRelated: It extended confessional exclusion to the monarchy, a different constitutional target from public-office tests.

• Charles Edward StuartRelated: It legally barred the Catholic Stuart line from inheriting the English crown.

• Mary IIRelated: Mary's childless death left succession uncertain, a problem later addressed by this statute.