Exercices

1.Answer the following questions:

1.What are the duties of the Attorney General?

2.Why is the law less certain today, than it was thought to be in 1787?

3.Who is the second ranking officer of the Department of Jus­tice?

4.What do you know about the Federal Bureau of Investiga­tion and its activities?

II.Fill In the blanks with prepositions:

The Attorney General represents the US... legal matters generally. 2. The White House calls... the Attorney General... legal advice, particularly... bills and resolutions passed... Congress. 3. The decisions of the Attorney General are not made... reference to the policies of the President. 4. The Solicitor Gen­eral assumes the duties of Attorney General... his absence. 5. He represents the Government... cases … the Supreme Court, and... the request of the Attorney General. 6. The FBI gathers Information... criminal matters which corner, the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice. 7. The FBI deals... kidnappers, bank robbers and many other violators of Federal law, and is active... counterespionage. 8. Other secret services located... the Treasury, pursue counterfeiters, smugglers, narcotics deal­ers, and income-tax dodgers. 9. When caught all such, persons are prosecuted... Federal Courts... the supervision of the De­partment of Justice.

III.Suggest the Russian for the following word combinations. Use them in sentences of your own:

executive-departments heads; to call on smb for legal ad­vice; to send smth. to the chief executive for his signature; to exercise emergency powers; to have a wide discretion about smth.; without reference to smth; at smb.'s request; an-intelligence agency; to come within the jurisdiction of; alleged violations; to do the field work of investigating smth.