Year 8 Civics Glossary Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. …law (Judge made law)
  2. 3. a proposed law that has not yet become law
  3. 5. law made by parliament
  4. 9. an area of Australia that elects one MP
  5. 10. the Queen’s authority in the Australian parliament
  6. 11. a vote to change to the Constitution
  7. 12. to remove a law so that it no longer applies
  8. 13. ….of proof (the level of proof required to win a case)
  9. 16. an agreement between two or more countries
  10. 18. rules detailing the structure of Government
  11. 19. a legal principle developed by a court
  12. 20. people who decide the verdict in a criminal trial
  13. 22. the destruction of 6 million Jews during World War II
  14. 24. unlawful damage to a person’s good reputation
Down
  1. 2. one who hears cases in a lower court
  2. 3. ……of proof ( the party that has to prove a case
  3. 4. a law made by Parliament
  4. 6. a law passed by Parliament
  5. 7. where citizens choose how they will be governed
  6. 8. the party against whom an action has been brought
  7. 14. to take legal for a criminal offence
  8. 15. the person who commences a legal action in civil law
  9. 17. ….nullius (‘land belonging to no-one’)
  10. 21. ……law set by Indigenous people
  11. 23. legally responsible for a civil wrong