In 1910, David Lloyd George, who was serving as chancellor of the exchequer in the Liberal government, opined that: ‘Wales had been solid for disestablishment for 40 years’ (The Times, 18 Jan. 1910, p.12). According to Lloyd George, this aspiration had been thwarted by the political reality that: ‘if a Bill went up to the House of Lords it would not have the slightest chance of getting through’. At its core, the quest for the disestablishment of the Anglican church in Wales was viewed as an unprecedented constitutional and political change. It threatened to dismember one of the pillars of the English state and thereby sever a church/state relationship which, it was argued, predated parliament itself. This article will address the democratic deficit in Wales where the desire of the electorate had been repeatedly frustrated over decades, and the way disestablishment legislation would eventually be enacted through the provisions of the Parliament Act 1911. The final ignominy was that the delay inherent in the new parliamentary process would jeopardise the disestablishment that it had enabled, and this was evident in the first years of the Great War.

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1911 年议会法案下威尔士教会法案的通过以及战争的影响

1910年，在自由党政府担任财政大臣的戴维·劳合·乔治认为：“威尔士40年来一直稳固地解体”（泰晤士报）, 1910 年 1 月 18 日，第 12 页）。根据劳合乔治的说法，这一愿望因政治现实而受挫：“如果一项法案提交上议院，它就没有丝毫通过的机会”。其核心是，寻求解散威尔士圣公会教堂被视为前所未有的宪法和政治变革。它威胁要肢解英国国家的支柱之一，从而切断教会/国家关系，有人认为这种关系早于议会本身。本文将解决威尔士的民主赤字，几十年来选民的愿望一再受挫，以及最终通过 1911 年议会法的规定颁布解散立法的方式。