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==Acts of Union==
The [[Acts of Union 1707]] were a pair of [[Act of Parliament|Parliamentary Acts]] passed during 1706 and 1707 by the [[Parliament of England]] and the [[Parliament of Scotland]] to put into effect the [[Treaty of Union]] agreed on 22 July 1706. The acts joined the [[Kingdom of England]] and the [[Kingdom of Scotland]] (previously separate [[sovereign state]]s, with separate legislatures but [[Personal union|with the same monarch]]) into the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome |url=http://www.parliament.uk/actofunion/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015044930/http://www.parliament.uk/actofunion/ |archive-date=15 October 2008 |access-date=7 October 2008 |website=parliament.uk}}</ref>

England, Scotland, and Ireland had shared a monarch for more than a hundred years, since the [[Union of the Crowns]] in 1603, when [[King James VI of Scotland]] inherited the English and Irish thrones from his first cousin twice removed, [[Elizabeth I|Queen Elizabeth I]].