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Across 5. State in which supreme power rests with the people and their elected representatives or officers. 6. Also called representative democracy. 8. A government ruled by one person who holds supreme power. 9. A form of dictatorship government ruled by an elite group with supreme power. 11. Different governments simultaneously asserting authority on the people. 12. a system in which the people give authority to one centralized level of government which then creates other levels of government to help administer the law.

Down 1. System of government in which the state has complete control over all aspects of its citizens lives 2. Form of government in which citizens participate in the making and enforcement of laws and policies. 3. The absence of government or law. 4. Also called pure democrasy; 7. An authoritave form of government in which the ruler or rulers have unshared power over the making and enfrocing of laws. 10. Higher house in Congress.