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6. Popularly elected officials who serve in state legislatures and in the House of Representatives in Congress. Representing the local districts from which they are elected, representatives support the interests of their constituents by proposing bills and programs. Elected for two-year terms, representatives in Congress must be sensitive to their constituents' concerns in order to be reelected.
10. a country or territory claimed and forcibly taken control of by a foreign power which sends its own people to settle there
11. the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed.
13. a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
14. branch of government having the power to make laws; the legislature.
16. a city in SE Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River: Declaration of Independence signed here July 4, 1776.
18. a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.

1. the national legislative body of the U.S., consisting of the Senate, or upper house, and the House of Representatives, or lower house, as a continuous institution.
2. a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch.
3. an alteration of or addition to a motion, bill, constitution, etc.
4. the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
5. the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc
7. arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.
8. the noble class or the body of nobles in a country.
9. pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice
11. a place where justice is administered.
12. a person designated to act for or represent another or others; deputy; representative, as in a political convention.
15. the branch of government charged with the execution and enforcement of laws and policies and the administration of public affairs; the executive.
17. the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the chief executive of the United States