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PART I

TEXT 1: A GLIMPSE OF BRITISH POLITICAL HISTORY………………………..141

TEXT 2: THE ENGLISH POLITICAL HERITAGE………………………………….142

TEXT 3: THE IDEAS OF JOHN LOCKE…………………………………………….142

TEXT 4: THE LEGAL HERITAGE OF FRANCE……………………………………143

TEXT 5: THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT…………………………...143

TEXT 6: THE INDIAN SELF-GOVERNMENT IN NORTH AMERICA……………144

TEXT 7: GOVERNMENT IN THE COLONIES……………………………………...145

TEXT 8: COLONIAL LEGISLATURES……………………………………………...145

TEXT 9: COLONIAL SELF-GOVERNMENT………………………........................146

TEXT 10: DEMOCRACY……………………………………………………………...146

TEXT 11: ELEMENTS OF DEMOCRACY…………………………………………...147

TEXT 12: CHARACTERISTICS OF DEMOCRACY………………………………...147

TEXT 13: THE SOIL OF DEMOCRACY……………………………………………..148

TEXT 14: OLIGARCHY……………………………………………………………….148

TEXT 15: AUTOCRACY……………………………………………….......................149

TEXT 16: THE AMERICAN CIVIL SERVICE……………………………………….150

TEXT 17: THE ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM……………………..150

TEXT 18: THE CONCEPT OF BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE……………………..151

TEXT 19: US CONGRESS RULES...............................………………………………151

TEXT 20: LAWMAKING IN THE SENATE…………………………………………152

TEXT 21: CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT……………………………………..152

TEXT 22: VOTING IN THE USA……………………………………………………..153

TEXT 23: PARTIES AND PARTY SYSTEMS……………………………………….153

TEXT 24: RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS………154

TEXT 25: PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED………………………154

TEXT 26: CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT………………………………..155

TEXT 27: FREEDOM OF THE PRESS……………………………………………….156

TEXT 28: FREE PRESS AND FAIR TRIAL………………………………………….156

TEXT 29: FREEDOM OF SPEECH…………………………………………………...157

TEXT 30: FREEDOM OF RELIGION………………………………………………...157

TEXT 31: MASS MEDIA IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY………………………….158

TEXT 32: THE PENTAGON PAPERS………………………………………………..158

TEXT 33: WATERGATE……………………………………………….......................159

TEXT 34: LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BRITAIN…..159

TEXT 35: CHARLES I AND THE CIVIL WAR……………………………………...160

TEXT 36: THE ROYALISTS AND THE PARLIAMENTARIANS………………….161

TEXT 37: THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR…………………………………………..161

TEXT 38: THE HISTORY OF SPEAKERSHIP IN BRITAIN………………………..162

TEXT 39: THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS………........................162

TEXT 40: THE SPEAKER'S DUTIES………………………………….......................163

TEXT 41: DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS………………………………163

TEXT 42: UNPARLIAMENTARY LANGUAGE…………………………………….164

PART II.

FAMOUS LEGAL DOCUMENTS THROUGHOUT HISTORY (EXTRACTS)

TEXT 1: Hammurabi's Code of Laws (1758 B.C.)……………………………………..……...130

TEXT 2: The Laws of William the Conqueror (1066 - 1087)……………………….......……..131

TEXT 3: The Magna Carta (1215)………………………………………………………..……132

TEXT 4: The Petition of Rights (1628)………………………………………………..……….135

TEXT 5: The English Bill of Rights (1689)………………………………………..…………..137

TEXT 6: The U.S. Declaration of Independence (1776)……………………………………….141

TEXT 7: The U.S. Bill of Rights (1791)…………………………………..…………………...142

TEXT 8: European Prison Rules (1990s)………………………………………………..……..143

PHILOSOPHERS OF LAW

TEXT 9: Sir Thomas More, 1478 - 1535………………...……………………………………..148

TEXT 10: John Locke, 1632 - 1704…………………………………...……………………….148

TEXT 11: Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu, 1689 - 1755…………….……..………...149

TEXT 12: Voltaire, 1694 - 1778…………………………………………….……………….....149

TEXT 13: Jeremy Bentham, 1748 - 1832……………….………………………..…………….150

NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS

TEXT 14: Cain…………………………………………………………………...……………..152

TEXT 15: Marcus Junius Brutus, 85 - 42 B.C., Gaius Longinus Cassius, d. 42 B.C…….…….152

TEXT 16: Caligula, A.D. 12 - 41……………………………………………………...……….152

TEXT 17: Colonia Agrippina, A.D. 16 - 59……………….………………..………………….152

TEXT 18: Guy Fawkes, 1570 - 1606………………………...………………………………...153

TEXT 19: Captain William Kidd, 1645 - 1701……………………………...…………………153

TEXT 20: Alessandro Cagliostro, 1743 - 1795………………………………...……………...153

TEXT 21: Billy the Kid (William Bonny), 1860 - 1881………………………..……………...153

TEXT 22: Jack the Ripper ………………………………..…………………………………...154

TEXT 23: Roy Bean, d. 1903……………………………………………..……………………154

TEXT 24: Butch Cassidy, 1866—1910 and the Sundance Kid, d. 1910………………...……..154

TEXT 25: Mata Hari (born Gertruda Margarete Zelle), 1876—1917 …………………………154

TEXT 26: Captain Alfred Dreyfus, 1859—1935………………………………………………155

TEXT 27: Lizzie Borden, 1860—1927………………………………………………………...155

TEXT 28: Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, 1882—1910………………………….........................155

TEXT 29: Bonnie and Clyde (Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow), d. 1934………………..…..156

TEXT 30: 'Ma' Barker, d. 1935……………………………………………..………………….156

TEXT 31: Bruno Hauptmann, d. 1936……………………………………………..…………..156

TEXT 32: Hans Van Meegeren, 1889—1947………………………………….........................157

TEXT 33: Alphonse Capone, 1899—1947…………………………………….........................157

TEXT 34: 'Lucky Luciano', 1897—1962………………………………………………………157

TEXT 35: Frank Costello, 1891—1973………………………………………………………..157

TEXT 36: George Blake, b. 1922………………………………………………………………158

TEXT 37: Lee Harvey Oswald, 1940—1963…………………………………………………..158

FAMOUS DETECTIVES

TEXT 38: Father Brown………………………………………………………………………..159

TEXT 39: Sherlock Holmes……………………………………………………………………159

TEXT 40: Ellery Queen ………………………………………………………………………..159

TEXT 41: Hercules Poirot……………………………………………………………………...159

TEXT 42: Inspector Jules Maigret……………………………………………………………...160

TEXT 43: Perry Mason ………………………………………………………………………...160

THE STUPIDEST CRIMINALS

TEXT 44: Bank Bobbers……………………………………………………………………….161

TEXT 45: MuggersThieves…………………………………………………….........................162

TEXT 46: Thieves……………………………………………………………………………...162

TEXT 47: Escape Artists……………………………………………………….........................163

TEXT 48: Shop-Lifters………………………………………………………………………...163

TEXT 49: Robbers……………………………………………………………………………...164

TEXT 50: Burglars……………………………………………………………………………..164

TEXT 51: 'Miscellaneous' Crooks……………………………………………………………...165

TEXT 52: Outrageous Lawsuits………………………………………………………………..165