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Across 1. Power to interpret laws 4. The power to rule is held by a small, usually self appointed elite 11. Power to execute, enforce, and administer law 12. Person holds unlimited political power 13. Supreme and absolute power of own territory

Down 2. power to make law 3. The leader has absolute power or authority 5. Alliance of independent states 6. Supreme authority rests with the people 7. body of people, living in a defined territory 8. All those things a government decides to do 9. Institution through which a society makes and enforces policies 10. Body of fundamental laws