Задание 17. Ответьте на вопросы по тексту.

1. Law has several aims, hasn’t it?

2. What ways of behaving does the law forbid?

3. In what case will people treat one another better?

4. What is the second aim of the law?

5. Does the law protect or forbid people’s interests?

6. What do you know about restrictions and guarantees?

7. What can you say about law and government?

1. Yes, it has.

2. The law forbids certain ways of behaving like murder, libel, and requires others, like paying income fax.

3. If they are more secure they will treat one another better.

4. Laws guarantee to people who buy and sell goods, make wills, take employment, form companies and so on that the state will if necessary enforce these arrangements.

5. The law not only threatens those who do what it forbids but promises to protect people’s interests.

6. It imposes restrictions on them but also gives them certain guarantees.

7. Lastly, a very important aim of law is to settle what the system of government is to be.

We are now increasingly governed, indirectly or directly, by international bodies (for example the European Union).

But the state still occupies center stage, especially when it comes to enforcing laws.