Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- To approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
- 5 Across
- The United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws
- 8 Across
- A middle way between two extremes
- 10 Across
- A member of the United States House of ___
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- A member of the Union Army during the American Civil War
- 13 Across
- A written agreement between two states or sovereigns
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- An analytic or interpretive literary composition
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- Persons who administer the law
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- A basic truth or law or assumption
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- Decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice
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- A person appointed or elected to represent others
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- The power or right to give orders or make decisions
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- The idea of a ___ organization of more or less self-governing units
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- Commodities bought from a foreign country (plural)
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- The act of rewriting something
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- Commodities sold to a foreign country (plural)
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