Political Institutions

5. A formal address or discourse delivered to an audience.
6. A sealed box into which voters put completed ballot papers.
8. The section of a political party or system that advocates free enterprise and private ownership, and typically favours socially traditional ideas; the conservative group or section.
10. A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.
11. To formally express a choice, preference, or opinion such as in an election, meeting, or referendum, by casting a ballot, raising a hand, or speaking.
12. 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.
13. A person who applies for a job or other position or is nominated for election.

1. An ornamented staff carried by rulers on ceremonial occasions as a symbol of sovereignty.
2. The elected head of a republic.
3. A country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen.
4. The section of a political party or system that advocates greater social and economic equality, and typically favours socially liberal ideas; the socialist or progressive group or section.
7. The number of people attending or taking part in an event, especially the number of people voting in an election.
8. An act of reorganizing or rearranging something.
9. A form of government with a monarch at the head.