Task 6. Complete the following text with the words from the box below using them in the appropriate form

Napoleon`s Law

Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican soldier who … emperor of France after the French revolution, established in 1800 five commissions to refine and …the diverse legal systems of France. The result, enacted in 1804, was Napoleon`s Code.

Some of its original 2,281 articles were drafted by Napoleon himself, and all were affected by his thinking, even though he was completely self-taught in legal matters. The Code was a triumphant … to create a legal system that treated all citizens as equals without regard to their rank or previous privileges. It was also so clearly written that it could be read and … by ordinary people at a time when only Latin scholars could …sense of the earloer laws handed down since Roman times. The Code … in most of the areas of europe that Napoleon dominated and spread from there across the Atlantic, taking …particularly in French-speaking american communities. Many of its …are still in force today.

To understand, to organise, principles, to become, to adopt, attempt, root, to make

Task 7. Make a presentation on one of the following topics.

1. Why do the people need for law?

2. What is it better: to have the imperfect laws or to have not them at all? Explain the choice.

3. Could you rely upon the law of the jungle? Why?

Task 8. Read and render the following text.

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