Across
- 1. a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.
- 3. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
- 6. is a system of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government.
- 8. (in the UK) the highest legislature, consisting of the sovereign, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons.
- 10. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system.
- 13. an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions.
- 14. the power to do as one pleases
- 15. a British soldier.
- 16. a colonist of the American revolutionary period who supported the British cause.
- 18. (especially in the US) charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct.
- 19. 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.
Down
- 2. an article added to the US Constitution.
- 4. a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body.
- 5. the action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid.
- 7. send (goods or services) to another country for sale.
- 9. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
- 11. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
- 12. a formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause.
- 17. a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army.
- 18. a good or service bought in one country that was produced in another.