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X Translate the sentences from Russian into English using the active vocabulary

1. Правительство ежедневно принимает решения, касающиеся общественной жизни страны, а именно: проблемы международной политики, объявление войны или перемирия; вопросов касающихся налогообложения, запрет на строительство дорог, больниц, на систему образования и на обеспечение благосостояния государства.

2. Министр внутренних дел, министр правительства и тысячи гражданских служащих являются той ветвью власти, которая несет ответственность за соблюдение закона и порядка.

3. У Королевы особое отношение к суду. Суд изначально принадлежит Ей в том смысле, что правосудие осуществляется от имени ЕЕ Величества.

4. Обязанностью государства является решение проблемы и наделения населения гражданскими правами, которые включают в себя все имеющиеся гражданские и политические права, признанные английским законодательством.

5. Все судьи должны быть уверены, что права на справедливое судебное разбирательство, представленные согласно Европейской Конвенции, соблюдаются.

Grammar Revision

Exercises

Translate the sentences paying attention: “It is that; it is who”

1. It is the executive that decides how that policy is to be carried out, and the executive is actually responsible for carrying it out.

2. It is under the Constitution that individual citizens owe certain duties to their Queen and Country.

3. It is the Great Charter (the Magna Carta) 1215, the Petition of Rights 1628, and the Bill of Rights 1689, and the Human Rights Act 1998 that became the most important landmarks in our human rights history.

4. It is speed that causes accidents, not bad roads.

5. It was Tom who defended my son.

6. It is the manager who we are going to see.

7. It was the only man who left the ship.

8. It was Peter who saved our child.

9. It is today that the case is heard.

10. It is a fair lawyer who we need.

11. It is the Queen who opens and dissolves (closes) Parliament.

12. It is in the name of the Queen that our system of justice is administered.

13. It is the province of the court to guard and protect the Constitution.

Speaking

Exercises

I. Say whether the following statements are true of false

1. In the United Kingdom (UK), power is divided so as to ensure that it never becomes dangerously concentrated in the hands of one person or even small group of people.

2. The purpose of the executive is an overall control of all thousands of civil servants who are concerned in keeping law and order.

3. The British Constitution is a complicated written document.

4. It is the province of the Courts to guard and protect the Constitution.

5. The duties of the State include giving citizens their civil liberties.

II. Answer the questions about the text.

1. In what ways is the British Constitution different from the Constitutions of many other countries?

2. What are the advantages of the unwritten Constitution?

3. What power and duty do judges in the USA have and why?

4. In what way is the power in the UK divided?

5. What does the statement “the Queen in Parliament” mean?

6. In what way is the executive in local authority formed?

7. What is the Government? How is it formed? What decisions does it make?

8. What do Senior/Junior ministers do?

9. What does” to be responsible for law and order” mean? What activities does it include?

10. What two vital roles in the Constitution do judges play?

11. What cases are known as Crown Office Cases?

12. What did the trial of Jack Perizweig in November 1941 become famous for?

13. What is the position of the Crown in the Constitution?

14. What does the Queen as head of the executive do?

15. What does it mean that the system of justice is administered in the “name of the Queen”

16. Why is the trial of Charles I known to be the most famous in the history of England?

17. What are the main duties of citizens?

18. What are the main duties of the state?

19. What was the way of development of the human rights documents over the centuries.

20. What basic human rights does the European Convention guarantee?

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