- •Unit I history and sources of english law
- •Verb Noun Adjective
- •The Concise Oxford Dictionary
- •Language practice and comprehaension check
- •Disadvantages of case law
- •Unit II constitution
- •Language practice and comprehension check.
- •Overriding power, key powers, ultimate legal power, legal framework, lawful heir, military dictatorship
- •Constitute, institute, substitute, restitution, constituency
- •Oliver Cromwell;
- •Short Parliament;
- •Long Parliament.
- •Pretensions - (often pl) a claim to possess
- •Adjective noun verb
- •1) Free and fair; 5) Evolutionary and constitutional;
- •Scotland Act 1998
- •1998 Chapter 46
- •Language practice and comprehension check
- •Prejudice
- •4) Set/to place
- •8) Settle
- •Outlawed or exiled Deny or defer
- •Unit III monarchy
- •Financing the monarchy
- •Task IV. Add negative prefixes where possible:
- •B) Supply the correct derivatives of the words in the right column
- •Unit IV parliament
- •Increasing Parliamentary Influence
- •* Text 3 legal history of parliament
- •Notes to the text
- •Task II a) Match the words on the right with their synonyms on the left:
- •Parliament under Reform
- •The government’s reform of the Lords heralds the end of constitutionally-enshrined aristocratic government in Britain.
- •Variations on this procedure
- •Freedom of Speech
- •Breach of Privilege
- •Punishment for Contempt
- •Privileges of the House of Lords
- •Unit V the executive
- •Language practice and comprehension check
- •Notes to the text
- •Text 3 the growth of the executive
- •Notes to the text
- •Language practice and comprehension check
- •Text 4 “hollowed-out government”
- •Task III a) Look up the usage of “government” in the following word combinations:
- •B) Use “state” or “government” in the following sentences:
- •Task IV Name the issues raised in the article
- •Task V If you were a Member of Parliament would you approve or reject each of the following Current reforms, give your reasons:
- •Unit I history and sources of english law
- •Unit II
- •Task II
- •Task III
- •Task II
- •Task III
- •Unit III text 1 task I
- •Task V
- •Text 4. Task II
- •Unit IV parliament
- •Task VI
- •Task VI
- •Unit V the executive
- •Task III
Notes to the text
Westland – A British company making helicopters which was at the centre of a major public disagreement between senior politicians in the Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher in 1986.Westland was in serious financial difficulties. Michael Heseltine, the minister of defence, wanted it to be sold to a group of European companies, but Leon Brittan, the secretary of state for trade and industry, and other senior politicians, wanted it to be sold to the US company Sikorski. Michael Heseltine resigned from the Cabinet when he was told that he could not make any public statement on the matter without Mrs Thatcher’s approval. Leon Brittan later resigned when he was forced to admit that he had allowed a secret letter criticizing Michael Heseltine to be made public. Westland was sold to Sikorski.
Shadow Cabinet – the group of British MPs from the Opposition (= the main party opposing the government) who would probably form the Cabinet if their party were in power. Each member of the Shadow Cabinet speaks on behalf of his party on matters for which he or she would be responsible.
LANGUAGE PRACTICE AND COMPREHENSION CHECK
TASK I Complete the sentences using verbs in passive forms:
All major government decisions (take)…
The policies to be submitted to Parliament (determine)…
The Cabinet ensures that the relevant policies (carry out)…
Once the matter (decide) …
The convention (observe)…
The convention (suspend)…
The size of the Cabinet (prescribe)…
The office of Prime Minister (recognize)
Ministers may (bind)…
The Prime Minister (choose)…
No votes customarily (take)
Matters (refer) to sub-committees.
TASK II Find in the text those sentences which express similar ideas:
The functions of the Cabinet are: the supreme control of the national executive in accordance with the policy agreed by parliament ; and the continuous coordination and delimitation of the authority of Government departments.
Under the doctrine of collective responsibility the Cabinet is bound to offer unanimous advice to the Sovereign, even when its members do not hold identical views on a given subject. In principle, once the Government’s policy on a particular matter has been decided, each minister is expected to support it, unless he chooses to resign, as he is free to do.
In the exceptional circumstances preceding the referendum in June 1975 on British membership of the European Community, ministers were free to campaign in the country against the Government’s recommendation.
A great deal of the work of the Cabinet is carried on through the committee system, which involves the reference of any issue either to a standing Cabinet committee or to an ad hoc committee composed of the ministers primarily concerned.
The unique position of authority enjoyed by the Prime Minister derives from his power to submit his own choice of ministers to the Sovereign and to obtain their resignation or dismissal individually. He makes recommendations to the Sovereign for the award of many civil honours and distinctions.
TASK III Insert the proper prepositions into following:
The Cabinet is composed ... ministers personally selected ... the Prime Minister and may include the holders of departmental and non-departmental offices.
Its origin can be traced back ... the informal conferences that the Sovereign held ... his leading ministers, independently ... the Privy Council, ... the seventeenth century.
After the Sovereign’s withdrawal ... an active role in politics ... the eighteenth century, and the development ... organised political parties the Cabinet assumed its modern form.
The functions of the Cabinet are: the final determination ... the policy to be submitted ... Parliament; the supreme control of the national executive in accordance ... the policy agreed ... Parliament.
The exercise of these functions is vitally affected ... the fact that the Cabinet is a group of party representatives, depending ... its existence ... the support of a majority ... the House of Commons.