Whig politicians believe Parliament has the right…

Whig politicians believe Parliament has the right to determine the succession, and bestow it on the nearest Protestant relation of the Queen, while many Tories are more inclined to believe in the hereditary right of the Stuarts.

George announces in 1710 that he will succeed in Britain by hereditary right, as the right had only been removed from the Catholic Stuarts, and he retains it.