Acts of Union 1707 Galleries of Scotland. ! colspan="2" style="background:#e9e9e9 text-align:left;"|Commissioner ! style="background:#e9e9e9 text-align:right;"|Constituency/Position ! style="background:#e9e9e9 text-align:right;"|Party ! style="background:#e9e9e9 text-align:right;"|Vote Acts of Union 1707 The Acts of Union were two Acts of Parliament: the Union with Scotland Act 1706 passed by the Parliament of England, and the Union with England Act passed in 1707 by the Parliament of Scotland. They put into effect the terms of the Treaty of Union that had been agreed on 22 July 1706, following negotiation between commissioners representing the parliaments of the two countries. By the two Acts, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotlandwhich at the
House of Commons of the United Kingdom House of Lords has been severely curtailed by statute and by practice, the House of Commons is clearly the more powerful chamber of Parliament. The British Parliament of today largely descends, in practice, from the Parliament of England, although the 1706 Treaty of Union, and the Acts of Union that ratified the Treaty, created a new Parliament of Great Britain to replace the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland, with the addition of 45 MPs and sixteen Peers to represent Scotland. Later still the Acts of Union 1800 brought about the abolition of the Parliament of Ireland and