Civil Liberties and Rights (II)

Civil rights protect certain general human needs and interests, but some­times conflict with other human needs and interests, conflicts which have to be adjusted and resolved in the courts or by legislation. A civil right or liberty exists only in so far as it is legally recognized and protected, not merely if it is asserted or even proclaimed by a government or political party.

Civil liberties are distinguishable from moral liberty or freedom of the will; from political liberties, such as the right to elect and to stand for elec­tion; from 'human rights' or 'natural rights'; from economic liberties, such as freedom of contract, trade, competition, of organizing, and of striking; from religious liberties, such as freedom of belief and of worship; and from academic freedom; though there is considerable overlapping, and as law in general protects each of these groups of liberties, some would class all of these within the general group of civil liberties. Civil liberties were justi­fied by seventeenth — and eighteenth-century philosophers as inherit or inalienable rights. Historically most of them arose by way of successful re­sistance to kings, harsh employers, unrepresentative parliaments, and the like.

ВАРИАНТ III

1. Перепишите следующие предложения и письменно переведите их на русский язык. Обратите внимание на особенности перевода сослагательного наклонения.

1. The jury were absolutely confused and wished they didn't have to bring in a verdict in that case. 2. It's necessary that the police officer should be present at the crime scene to collect ail the evidence of the crime. 3. I feel as if I had added a sense of guilt to my other more formal obligations. 4 He wished nobody of his personnel staff had been bribed by the ingenious Mr.Hong. 5. It was as though Pyle, when he left me, had sentenced me to long term of solitude.