- •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
Task III a) Look up the usage of “government” in the following word combinations:
Adjectives +government: central, federal, local, national, regional, Labour, Conservative, French Western, etc, left-wing, right-wing, coalition, minority, interim, successive, transitional, democratic, representative, republican, supreme, firm, good, strong, weak.
Verb + government: elect, form, install, swear in, head, run, bring down, destabilize, oust overthrow, topple.
Government + verb: come to power, take office, fall, resign, announce sth, introduce sth, launch sth.
Government + noun: agency, body, department, enterprise, institution, office, service, funds, loan, money, paper, aid, assistance, approval, backing, funding, grant, subsidy, support, contract, credit, expenditure, spending, cuts, intervention, involvement, employee, minister, official, representative, spokesman, sources, crisis, figures, statistics, post, reshuffle, activities, decisions, functions, bills, legislation, measures, plans, policy, programme, proposals, report, propaganda.
PHRASES: a branch of government; a change of government; the government of the day; a form of government; system of government; the sitting government; the composition of the government.
2) the usage of “state” in the following word combinations:
Adjective + state: independent, nation, sovereign, foreign, democratic, one-party, welfare, socialist, totalitarian, member, powerful, strong, weak, neighbouring etc.
State + noun: enterprise, monopoly, control, ownership, property, sector, system education, school, aid, funding, funds, subsidy, support, benefit, pension, intervention, spending, employee, secretary, interests, secret, security, boundaries, debt, planning, succession, visit, etc.
PHRASES: affairs/matters of state; head of state, a secretary of state, crimes against the state; etc.
B) Use “state” or “government” in the following sentences:
A new labour ... came to power in the UK in 1997.
The president dissolved the assembly and swore in an interim ....
Since then ... intervention in the spheres of health, employment, education and social security has become far-reaching.
Successive ... assumed additional responsibilities in relation to economic planning, transport facilities, fuel and power supplies, housing, agriculture, protection of the environment, and so on.
Sovereignty is sometimes used to mean the highest legal authority, for example, the head of ....
Sovereignty also means the independence of a ... in international law.
The doctrine of the separation of power means that ... power should be divided up and each branch of government checked so that no one body can dominate the others.
The Torture Convention requires a ... either to prosecute or extradite an alleged offender.
Under the rule of law even the most despotic and self-interested ... is compelled to behave justly, in the sense that it must make rules and generally keep to them.
The basic legal relationship between the ... and the individual is one of Crown and subject, involving the concept of allegiance.
A passport issued by the Crown in its discretion requests other ...s to admit the holder.
The opposition has a constitutional duty criticise the ...but by definition the opposition is a minority and may be in disarray for several years after an election defeat.