Minds On - Civics Terms

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Across
  1. 1. The process that’s used to make formal, civic decisions.
  2. 3. Rights that depend on the law of the nation.
  3. 5. A person who seeks election to public office.
  4. 6. term commonly used to describe Indigenous Peoples in both Canada and America
  5. 8. A system in which citizens have a voice in making decisions, rules, and laws.
  6. 13. The original inhabitants of Canada, who are neither Inuit nor Métis.
  7. 14. He felt that people tended to be selfish and were mainly interested in achieving their own interests
  8. 16. An inhabitant of a city, town, or country.
  9. 17. He agreed that selfishness and greed were part of human nature, but he felt that people also had a built-in sense of fairness and equality
  10. 18. An opinion, preference, prejudice, or inclination that limits an individual’s or group’s ability to make fair, objective, or accurate judgments.
  11. 19. A branch of politics that focuses on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Down
  1. 2. Indigenous peoples from the Arctic and northern regions of Canada, Alaska, Russia, and Greenland.
  2. 4. A term very similar to the term Aboriginal that it is used globally to describe people who were the original inhabitants of any region throughout the world.
  3. 5. Consists of all Ministers who are appointed on the recommendation of the Prime Minister from among the members of the House of Commons.
  4. 7. The _____ Nation is comprised of descendants of people born of relations between Indian women and European men. The initial offspring of these unions were of mixed ancestry.
  5. 9. First Nations (Status and non-Status), Inuit, and Métis Peoples.
  6. 10. The establishment of a colony in one territory by a political power from another territory.
  7. 11. A system of government in which one or a few people make decisions for a larger group without getting any input from the people who’ll be affected by the decision (sometimes called a “dictatorship”)
  8. 12. One of two large rooms in the Centre Block where proceedings of the Senate and the House of Commons take place.
  9. 15. New legislation, or changes to an existing law proposed to Parliament.