The Act of Settlement confirmed that it was for Parliament to determine the title to the throne. It therefore came to be established not only that the Sovereign rules through Parliament, but that the succession to the throne can be regulated by Parliament, and that a Sovereign can be deprived of his/her title through misgovernment. The throne was then offered, not to James's young son, but to his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange, as joint rulers. When James II fled the country in 1688, Parliament held that he had 'abdicated the government' and that the throne was vacant. The basis for the succession was determined in the constitutional developments of the seventeenth century, which culminated in the Bill of Rights (1689) and the Act of Settlement (1701). The order of succession is the sequence of members of the Royal Family in the order in which they stand in line to the throne. The succession to the throne is regulated not only through descent, but also by Parliamentary statute.
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