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Scotch Parliament to decide who, in the event of Anne dying without issue, should succeed to the Scottish Crown. The mode by which the Parliament of Scotland employed these circumstances was by making the descent of the Crown depend upon the concession of commercial freedom. In 1704 it passed an Act called the Act of Security, which provided that in the event of Queen Anne's death without issue the Parliament of Scotland should choose a successor of the Royal line and Protestant religion, but that the same person should be incapable of holding the Crowns of England and Scotland, unless the Scotch were admitted to the privileges of trade and navigation equally with the English people. It also contained a clause that the men of Scotland capable of hearing arms should he trained to the use of them by monthly drills. Anne was compelled to give the Royal Assent to this Bill by refusal of Supplies, the Scotch Parliament shouting, "Liberty before subsidy"; and on the advice of Godolphin, Anne yielded and gave assent. Then it became evident that only one position was possible—one Kingdom, one Crown, and the Union of Scotland was effected.[1]
The Independent Irish Parliament.
The National demand of Ireland found expression in words, which are the constantly repeated watchwords of the Sinn Fein party in Ireland to-day. The resolutions of the Irish Volunteers at Dungannon, passed on the
- ↑ Ball, Legislative Systems, p. 81; Swift, Public Spirit of the Whigs, etc., The Story of the Injured Lady.
