Marriage license

To Any person Legally Authorized to Solemnize Marriage

This license is valid________________200___

and for 60 days thereafter

Greetings

Marriage may be celebrated in the County of Sangamon, and State of Illinois, between

________________________________of_______________________in the County or________________________and State of ___________________of the age of ___years, and_____________________________of_________________________in the County of_______________and State of _________________of the age of ____years.

Wiitness Joseph T. Alello, County Clerk of the Court of Sagamon and the Seal thereof, at my office in Springfield.

__________√_________________

Signature

SANGAMON COUNTY CLERK

This________day of ___________________________A.D. 200___

State of Illinois

County of Sangamon 1._______________________________a_________________________

Name of person officiating Official Title

Hereby certify that ____________________________and_______________________________

were united in marriage by me a_________________________in the County of Sangamon, and

State of Illinois, on the _____day___________________200__ Signature and official title _________________________________________

The names on this certificate must be identical

with the typed names in the ABC section. Address_________________________________

Groom __________________________ Bride _______________________

Signature Signature

Witness _____________________________ Witness ____________________

Signature Signature

(Family Law, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, Delmar Publishers, 1995)

ТЕКСТ 5

What is ethics?

When you woke up this morning, what did you do to start your day? How did you get to school today? Who did you talk to on your way to class? 

Every day you make decisions. You choose what you will wear (even if you wear a school uniform), you choose who your friends will be, and you make decisions about how hard you will work in school. In everything you do, you make choices. Sometimes you might think you don’t really have choices to make, but you always do! Even when you don’t do anything at all, you are deciding how you will act.

Have you ever faced a situation where you had to decide what the right thing was to do? If you have, then you’ve had to do some thinking about ethics.

 Ethics are standards or rules you set for yourself that you use to guide your actions. Your ethics have to do with what is right and wrong, or what you should do. For example, if you see a friend copying someone’s homework, you must choose whether or not you will tell the teacher what you observed. Whenever you have to make a decision where your actions will impact someone else, you face an ethical dilemma. The decision is ethical because you must decide what your obligation is (especially when another person is involved), and it’s a dilemma because you have more than one option to choose from. A decision you make is ethical when you choose to do the “right” thing.

Everyone has ethics that they live by. You gain your ethics from the values and principles that you have. Your values are the things that you consider to be important, or of worth. You probably value your family and friends, because they’re important to you. You also may value your free time, or a possession that you have. In addition to the things that you value, you also have some ideas about the way you’d like to live your life, and the kind of person you want to become. This is especially true when you think about how you want to treat the things you value, and the way you want to be treated by them. For example, if you value your friends, you probably want to be a good friend. That might mean that you want to be trustworthy or faithful to your friends. Trustworthiness and faithfulness are principles—they are ideas about the kind of person you want to be. There is an important relationship between ethics and the law. In most countries, laws are created and communicated so that people know what the rules are. Laws are based on ideas about right and wrong, and thus they come from an idea about ethics. However, laws can also be changed to reflect the views of people who have the most power or influence, and thus while they are still based on an idea of ethics, they are not ethical. The law reflects the social practices of a country while they reflect their ethics. Doing the right thing means obeying the law. If a law is bad, doing the right thing might also involve working to make changes in the legal standard.

 Sometimes doing the right thing means helping other people, even when you have to make sacrifices to do it. The right thing always has to do with obeying the principles that you think are good. You apply your ethical standards to all the situations you face in your life. We can say the same thing about other people in different settings too. In this course, we’ll be looking at the ethics of people in business settings, also known as business ethics.

ТЕКСТ 6