Its provisions were finally extended to Scotland after the signing of the Treaty of Union.
One legislative response to this action was passed only after the Scottish parliament threatened to withhold needed funding and troops for Marlborough's forces in the War of Spanish Succession. That threat forced Royal Assent for the Act of Security, which briefly removed Scotland from the effects of this earlier legislation. One mandate of this legislation was the elimination of the monarch's power to appoint and dismiss judges, instead giving judges the right to serve until the monarch's death, with 1761 revision providing for lifetime tenure. Its provisions were finally extended to Scotland after the signing of the Treaty of Union. Fears of the accession to the throne of the "Old Pretender," James Stuart, drove, for 10 points, the passage of what British act, which selected Sophia, Electress of Hanover, as successor and mandated that English monarchs not be or be married to Catholics, passed in 1701?
One legislative response to this action was passed only after the Scottish parliament threatened to withhold needed funding and troops for Marlborough's forces in the War of Spanish Succession.
Act of {Settlement}, 1701