The Acts of Union refer to two acts of Parliament, one passed by the Parliament of Scotland in March 1707 and an equivalent act passed shortly after by the Parliament of England. They put into effect the international Treaty of Union agreed on 22 July 1706, which politically joined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into a single political state named Great Britain, with Queen Anne as its sovereign. The English and Scottish acts of ratification took effect on 1 May 1707, creating the new kingdom with its parliament based at the Palace of Westminster.
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