Just over 100 years later, parliaments of England and Scotland passed the Acts of Union.

仅仅过了100年后，英格兰和苏格兰国会通过了联合法案。

After the acts of union the English version of the flag became the official flag of the new country.

《联合法案》颁布后，英格兰的旗帜成为了这个新生国家的官方国旗。

Well-intentioned suggestions that we should, for example, seek to agree a new Act of Union for the 21st century ignore the political reality.

例如，我们应该，寻求就21世纪的新联合法达成一致的善意建议忽视了政治现实。

The act of union in 1536 combined west and east Wales into a single state.

1536 年的联合法案将威尔士西部和东部合并为一个州。

Wales is one of the four countries that form the United Kingdom. The act of union in 1536 combined west and east Wales into a single state.

威尔士是组成英国的四个国家之一。 1536 年的联合法案将威尔士西部和东部合并为一个州。

Both of these flags were used in limited forms because both kingdoms remained politically separate until the acts of union in 1707 formally united England and Scotland into the same country, Great Britain.

因为这两个王国在政治上仍然是相互独立的，因此旗帜的使用也相应受到限制，这种情况一直延续到1707年，《联合法案》将英格兰与苏格兰统一为一个国家——大不列颠王国才结束。

In 1707, The Act of Union brought Scotland closer  to Britain. It created a single Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain from the  focal point of the Palace of Westminster.

1707 年，联合法案拉近了苏格兰与英国的距离。它以威斯敏斯特宫为中心创建了一个单一的大不列颠联合王国议会。

Prior to the Act of Union of 1707 England and Scotland were frequently at war, and Jay argued that without a powerful national government, the northern and southern states may go to war with each other.

在 1707 年《联合法案》颁布之前， 英格兰和苏格兰经常发生战争，杰伊认为，如果没有强大的国家政府，北部和南部各州可能会互相开战。