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Exercise 2. Write a summary of the text in Russian

1. 
   Conventions are rules and practices which are not legally enforceable but which are regarded as indispensable to the working of government; many are derived from the historical events through which the British system of government has evolved.
   
2. 
   Even as recently as the early nineteenth century there was no clear-cut division in the House of Commons along modern party lines.
   
3. 
   The new industrial areas were unrepresented in the Commons while at the other end of the scale ancient boroughs which had decayed over the years and had few or no inhabitants sent several members.
   
4. 
   The personal influence of a candidate counted for more than the policy of a party; and once an MP had been elected he was under no obligation to follow a party line.
   
5. 
   It is the role of Government to strengthen individual liberty and choice while protecting the most vulnerable members of the community.
   
6. 
   The Labour Party origins go back to the last decade of the nineteenth century.
   

Exercise 6. Translate into English:

TOPICAL VOCABULARY

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  Statute law - юр. статутное право, “писанный закон”
  

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  common law - обычное (или общее) право
  
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  conventions - обычаи
  
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  Act of Parliament - парламентский акт, закон (законопроект, принятый Палатой общин и Палатой лордов и получивший королевскую санкцию)
  
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  legislative (organ, body), legislature - законодательный (орган)
  

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  working of the Constitution - действие Конституции
  
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  electorate - контингент избирателей, избирательный корпус
  
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  uniform franchise qualification - единый избирательный ценз
  
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  franchise - право голоса
  
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  suffrage - избирательное право, право голоса
  
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  constituency – избирательный округ
  
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  counties - графства (в Англии)
  
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  boroughs - города, представленные в Парламенте
  
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  Shadow Cabinet - теневой кабинет