Unit Eight A Red Light for Scofflaws

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Unit EightA Red Light for Scofflaws
Frank Trippett
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Frank Trippett (1926-1998) Born and grew up in
Mississippi Started his career as a
journalist Then, he was an associate editor
a senior editor a senior writer and an
essayist
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Awards and Major publications

• 1. His writing won awards from the National
  Headliner Club, the National Bar Association and
  the American Political Science Association.
• 2. Publication
• Fiction
• Child Ellen. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
  Prentice-Hall,1975.
• Nonfiction
• 1) The States United They Fell. Cleveland
  World Pub. Co., 1967.
• 2) The First Horsemen. New York Time-Life
  Books, 1974.
• 3) Hymning hawing about America A Few
  Symbol-Minded Essays. Philadelphia Xlibris,
  2000.

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Warming up

• Your definition of law and order?
• The functions of law and order?
• Law breaking and scoffing the differences
• The Chinese Saying
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• Are Scofflaws prevailing in China at present?
  What forms do they take? Why do people
  deliberately scoff the law?
• The record of a driver
• http//www.gzjd.gov.cn/gzjddyn/statServlet

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Defining Law

• n.
• A rule of conduct or procedure established by
  custom, agreement, or authority.
• The body of rules and principles governing the
  affairs of a community and enforced by a
  political authority a legal system
  international law.
• The condition of social order and justice created
  by adherence to such a system a breakdown of law
  and civilized behavior.
• A set of rules or principles dealing with a
  specific area of a legal system tax law
  criminal law.
• A piece of enacted legislation.

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Defining Order

• (often plural) a command given by a superior
  (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer)
  that must be obeyed "the British ships dropped
  anchor and waited for orders from London"
• established customary state (especially of
  society) "order ruled in the streets" "law and
  order"
• decree a legally binding command or decision
  entered on the court record (as if issued by a
  court or judge) "a friend in New Mexico said
  that the order caused no trouble out there"

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• Law-and-order (n.)
• Law-and-order (adj.)
• Advocating and following the established social
  order and the statutes written to enforce such
  order running for election as the law-and-order
  candidate.

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P 1. IntroductionMillions of Americans are
taking liberties with the legal codes.

• Breaking the law vs. scoff the law
• Scofflaws become prevailing
• American people are committing minor wrongs with
  no apology
• Despite the fact that
• Law-and-order is the longest-running and probably
  the best-loved political issue in U.S. history.

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A historical view

• American history of law and order
• Supplementary Reading1.
• American Pioneers or Illegals?
• What could be learned from the material?