1 | Bill | | _____ | to leave this country and move to another one. |
2 | Cabinet | | _____ | the things that make a person who they are, the things that make us the same as or different from other people. |
3 | Charity | | _____ | a system of government in which the people rule through the power to vote for their representatives. |
4 | Coalition | | _____ | (1) an organisation set up to help a particular group or issue (2) the act of donating money or time to a cause. |
5 | Constitutional monarchy | | _____ | a state benefit paid to unemployed people who meet certain conditions, such as being actively looking for work. It will gradually be replaced by a new benefit, Universal Credit, which has a wider scope and aims to replace several existing benefits. |
6 | Democracy | | _____ | a person from another country who comes to this country to live. |
7 | Devolution | | _____ | when particular political powers are given to a smaller subsection of the nation : for example, in the UK powers have been transferred to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. |
8 | Elections | | _____ | a system of government in which a king or queen is the head of state and an elected body makes the laws. |
9 | Electoral register | | _____ | the list of names of people who have registered to vote. |
10 | Emigrate | | _____ | a person who leaves this country to move to another one. |
11 | Emigrant | | _____ | when two or more political parties join together to form a majority in Parliament because neither of them could do so by themselves. |
12 | First-past-the-post | | _____ | a law that has been passed. |
13 | Identity | | _____ | a committee of senior government ministers who are responsible for setting government policy. |
14 | Jobseeker’s Allowance | | _____ | the formal system of voting. |
15 | Immigrant | | _____ | the legal national minimum rate of pay for workers aged 25 and older. |
16 | Living wage | | _____ | the voting system used in UK general elections. The candidate with the most votes in each constituency is elected to Parliament, and the party with the most Members of Parliament then forms a government. Due to the way this system works, the party that ends up forming a government does not necessarily receive a majority of the votes cast. |