Across
- 4. a person who is professionally involved in politics, especially as a holder of an elected office.
- 5. the greater number.
- 8. a person chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others.
- 11. a system of money in general use in a particular country.
- 12. the group of people with the authority to govern a country or state; a particular ministry in office.
- 14. a formal and organized choice by vote of a person for a political office or other position.
- 15. submit to the authority of (someone) or comply with (a law).
Down
- 1. a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.
- 2. a legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized.
- 3. the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties.
- 6. a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
- 7. (in certain countries) a head of a government department.
- 9. one of two or more available possibilities.
- 10. a piece of cloth or similar material, typically oblong or square, attachable by one edge to a pole or rope and used as the symbol or emblem of a country or institution or as a decoration during public festivities.
- 13. a formal indication of a choice between two or more candidates or courses of action, expressed typically through a ballot or a show of hands.
