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3. Mark these statements t (true) or f (false) according to the text.

  1. Not every national state but every political community has a constitution, at least in the sense that it operates its important institutions according to some fundamental body of rules.

  2. The constitution of a political community is composed of the principles determining the agencies to which the task of governing the community is entrusted and their respective powers.

3. Once the American colonies became independent states, they faced the problem of giving themselves a fresh political organization.

4. Since the end of the 19th century scores of states, in Europe and elsewhere, have followed the United States’ example.

5. Positive law from the Greek philosophers’ point of view is the law actually enforced in a community in order to be just must reflect the principles of a superior, ideal law: natural law.

4. Answer the questions on the text above:

  1. By what means can constitutional law as the body govern the operation of political communities?

  2. What is a constitution in the broadest sense?

  3. What kind of organizations may operate under the terms of a formal written document labelled constitution?

  4. What types of constitutions may be?

  5. What is the composition of the constitution of a political community?

  6. Can you describe the conceptions which were propagated in Rome and by whom?

  7. Can you explain the rules of positive legal systems in the Middle Ages?

  8. What doctrine was the banner of the Enlightenment? What did it assume?

  9. What is the role of the USA in the forming of constitutional law?

5. Make the following sentences complete by translating the words and phrases in brackets.

  1. The constitution of a (політична спільнота) may also include principles that

(визначити межі) powers to command in order to secure fundamental rights of

persons or groups.

  1. If a proposal is out of order the presiding officer of a club is obliged to rule if it is (суперечити) a provision of its constitution.

  2. The only (можлива) alternative to a constitution is a condition of anarchy.

  3. The constitution of a political community is (складатися) of the principles determining the agencies to which the task of governing the community is (наділяти) and their (відповідні повноваження).

  4. (Вирішальний момент) in the history of Western constitutional law occurred when a theory of natural law based on the («невід’ємне право») of the individual was developed.

6. Find the meaning in which the word «constitution» is used in the text:

  1. System of government; laws and principles according to which a state is governed.

  2. General physical structure and condition of a person’s body.

  3. General structure of a thing; act or manner of constituting.

7. Find in the text all the word combinations with the word and family of the word “constitution”. Give their Ukrainian equivalents. Make up your own sentences with them.

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