LESSON № 2 THE SYSTEM OF LAW IN RUSSIA

Law is a system of rules established by the state.

The main aim of law is to consolidate and safeguard the social and state system and its economic foundation.

The system of law in our country consists of different branches of law.

Constitutional law is a leading branch of the whole system of law. Its principal source is the country's Constitution.

It deals with social structure, the state system, organization of state power and the legal status of citizens.

Administrative law is closely connected with constitutional law but it deals with the legal forms of concrete executive and administrative activity of a government and ministries.

Financial law regulates the budget, taxation, state credits and other spheres of financial activity,

Civil law is connected with relations in the economic sphere of social life, with relations involving property, its distributions and exchange. The right in property is the central institution of civil law.

The rules of labour law include the legislation on the labour of industrial and office workers and regulate matters arising from labour relations.

Criminal iaw defines the general principles pi criminal responsibility, individual types of crimes and punishment applied to criminals. Criminal law takes the form of a criminal code consisting of a general and special part.

EXERCISEI. Read and translate the following word-combinations from the text:

1.to establish a system

2.a branch of law

3.the principal source of law

4.to deal with

5.the right in property

6.rules of law

7.industrial (office) — workers

8.to arise from

9.individual types of crimes

10.to apply punishment to a person

11.to take the form Of a code

12.a general (special) part

EXERCISE II.Answer the questions on the text:

1.What is law?

2.What is the main aim of law?

3.What branches of law does the system of law in our country
consist of?

4.What does each branch of law deal with?

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