By the Act of Settlement, 1701, Parliament had decided that the Crown should pass from Anne to the heirs of Sophia, Electress of Hanover and daughter of James I.; and the fact that the Chevalier was a Catholic made his accession impossible according to law, and the policy of Bolingbroke highly treasonable.
George I.could not speak English, and relied entirely on his Whig ministers.

Bolingbroke fled to the Continent, but was permitted to return from exile nine years later.

Oxford was impeached and sent to the Tower.
The Whigs were left in triumph to rule the country for nearly fifty years--until the restiveness of George III.

broke up their dominion--and for more than twenty years of that period Walpole was Prime Minister.
Cabinet government--that is, government by a small body of men, agreed upon main questions of policy, and commanding the confidence of the majority of the House of Commons--was now in full swing, and in spite of the monarchist revival under George III., no King henceforth ever refused consent to a Bill passed by Parliament.
The Whigs did nothing in those first sixty years of the eighteenth century to make the House of Commons more representative of the people.

They were content to repeat the old cries of the Revolution, and to oppose all proposals of change.