Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- The study of government of states and other ___ units
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- A statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government
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- The general estimation that the public has for a person
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- The activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
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- The end of life
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- Lacking in integrity
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- Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century
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- Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
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- A city in central Italy on the Arno
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- A belief accepted as authoritative by some group or school
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- People who make and enforce a country's laws
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- A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
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