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b)the courts

c)some set of rules

2.If we didn’t live in a structured society with other people ______________

a)we would simply do as we please

b)we would simply do with little regard for others

c)laws would not be necessary

3.Laws against criminal conduct help ______________

a)to protect our property

b)to take advantage of other individuals

c)to safeguard our personal property and our lives.

4.We turn to the law __________________

a)to resolve the dispute peacefully

b)to decide who is the real owner

c)to force people keep their promises

5.Another goal of the law is _____________

a)to protect certain basic individual rights and freedoms

b)fairness

c)to provide for benefits.

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1.Not everything we do is governed by some set of rules.

2.We need rules that everyone must obey.

3.Laws against criminal conduct don’t help to safeguard our personal property and our lives.

4.In well-ordered society conflicts never arise.

5.It is impossible to resolve disputes peacefully.

6.If individual’s rights are respected it means that we live in a safe and peaceful society.

7.Totalitarian governments have cruel and arbitrary laws.

8.Strong-arm tactics may provide a great deal of order ensuring the society operates in an orderly manner.

9.Laws should be applied to every person in the society.

10.The only goal of the law is fairness.

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Some singular laws were introduced in eighteenth-century England. How strange it might seem now, people had to pay “window tax” for each window in their house. Later, this law was changed because many poor people chose to live in houses without windows just so that they didn’t have to pay. Another law was no less funny. If you traveled in any motor vehicle in nineteenthcentury Britain, the law said that someone had to walk in front of you waving a red flag, or at night time a red lamp. This meant, in practice, that you couldn’t travel at more than about 8 kilometers per hour! Some other British laws concerning social behaviour were very strict. For example, until recently pubs in Britain weren’t allowed to stay open all day. They opened at eleven in the morning and had to shut again at three in the afternoon. In the evening they closed at half past ten. On Sundays the laws were stricter.

The USA is also famous for their quite odd laws. For example, in Illinois animals could go to jail, in Florida you had to wear clothes in the bath, in Kansas you were not permitted eat snakes in public, in North Carolina you could not drink milk on train, in Idaho you could not buy a chicken at night without the sheriff’s permission.

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1. to investigate crimes 2. civil offences 3. to punish the guilty 4. law and order 5. is breaking the law 6. obey the law 7. ignorance of the law is almost never a defence for breaking it 8. were prosecuted 9. legal codes

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The laws of all countries are to be found in written records – ( ) of countries with continental systems, the statutes and case-judgments of common law countries, warning on official forms, and notice in public buildings. Many people do not know where to find these records and do not find it easy to read them. But ( & -). Governments usually expect citizens to be aware of the laws which affect their lives. Sometimes this seems very harsh, for example, when the law is very technical. Shopkeepers in England ( $ ) for selling books on Sunday, although they were allowed to sell magazines. However, there are many laws, such as those prohibiting theft, assault and dangerous driving which simply reflect social and moral attitudes to everyday behaviour. In such cases a person knows he ( ) ), even if he doesn’t know exactly which law it is.

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