- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with words from the text.
- •6. Translate the following sentences in writing paying attention to underlined words and emphatic constructions.
- •7. Arrange the following words in pairs of synonyms.
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the words from the text.
- •5. Agree or disagree with the following statements.
- •6. Translate the following sentences in writing into Russian paying attention to different functions of the verb «to be».
- •7. Translate the following sentences in writing into Russian:
- •10. Read the text and render its content in Russian:
- •1. Read and translate the text
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the words from the text.
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •3. Find the beginning for the following endings.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with words from the text.
- •5. Find in the text the definitions of the meanings of the following words. Translate them into Russian in writing.
- •6. Translate the following sentences in writing paying attention to the underlined words and constructions.
- •3. Complete the following sentences.
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the words from the text.
- •5. Find in the text the definitions of the following terms.
- •6. Translate the following sentences in writing paying attention to the underlined words and constructions.
- •8. Compare the system of checks and balances of the us with that of Russia. Pay attention to the differences in these systems. The plan below may be helpful.
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •3. Complete the following sentences.
- •4. Insert the English equivalents used in the text.
- •9. Read the text and answer the following questions:
- •Political Parties
- •12. Read the article and do the tasks that follow it:
- •13. Answer the following questions:
- •14. Agree or disagree with the following:
- •16. Review the article.
- •17. Read and translate the article:
- •20. Answer the following questions:
- •21. Find in the article the facts to prove that:
- •II. Answer the following questions:
- •III. Complete the following sentences:
- •IV. Find in the text the facts to prove that:
- •VII. Could you give any examples from history or your personal experience when «the rule of law» works? do you support the idea that «the law is the highest judge»?
- •VIII. Read the following item and render its idea in russian:
- •X. Answer the following questions:
- •Xl agree or disagree with the following statements:
- •XII. Divide the text into logical parts, make up an outline of the text and speak on the text in accordance with your outline. Word study
- •I. Give russian equivalents for:
- •Word study
- •Word study
- •Authority
- •The state
- •Word study
- •Word study
- •Word study
- •The philosophical tradition
- •The empirical tradition
- •Word study
- •Word study
- •The Evolution of Pluralism
- •Word study
- •Word study
- •Word study
- •Text III
- •Text IV
- •In children (by Christine Russell)
- •Text VI
- •Text VII
- •Word study
- •Text VIII
- •Postmodern tv (by Steven Connor)
3. Complete the following sentences.
One of the most important American contributions to democratic practice has been ....
The USA is a federal republic with states ....
States possess significant responsibilities in such fields as ....
In centralized or «unitary» systems, these functions ....
The accumulation of all powers in the same hands may be pronounced ....
Political scientist R. Neustadt has described presidential power in the USA as «not the power to command, ...».
Not all the checks and balances within the federal government ....
The doctrine of judicial review gives the U.S. Su preme Court ....
The separation of powers in American system is often ....
10) But separation of powers provides ....
4. Fill in the blanks with the words from the text.
American states cannot be ... or ... by the federal government.
In the second sense, checks and balances ... to the separation of powers.
Legislative authority ... to the Congress.
Laws passed by the congress can be ... by the president.
The Congress must assemble a two-thirds majority in both the House and the Senate to ... a presidential veto.
The president ... ambassadors and members of the Cabinet and ... international treaties.
Only the Congress has the power ... war.
Nominating ambassadors and negotiating international treaties are subject to ... by the Senate.
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9) Government is best when its potential for abuse is ....
10) One of the most important American ... to demo cratic practice has been the development of a system of checks and balances.
5. Find in the text the definitions of the following terms.
Checks and balances, federalism, separation of powers, the doctrine of judicial review.
6. Translate the following sentences in writing paying attention to the underlined words and constructions.
It is a system founded on the deeply_held_helief that government is best when its potential for abuse is curbed, and when it is held as close to the people as possible.
As a general term, 'checks and balances' has two meanings: federalism and separation of powers.
Unlike the political subdivisions in nations such as Britain and France, which have unitary political structures, American states cannot be abolished or changed by the federal government.
«The accumulation of all powers, legislative execu tive and judiciary, in the same hands ... may justly be pro nounced in the very definition of tyranny»,
Separation of powers is in some ways a misleading term, because the system devised by Madison and the other framers of the Constitution is more one of shared rather than separate powers.
The Congress, in turn, must assemble a two-thirds majority in both the House Representatives and the Senate. To override a presidential veto.
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