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