# Summa potestas

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{{short description|Latin phrase meaning "highest authority"}}
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'''''Summa potestas''''' is a [Latin](/source/Latin) phrase meaning "highest authority" or "totality of power". It refers to the final authority of power in [government](/source/government). For example, the power of the [sovereign](/source/monarch)<ref>''US Legal Dictionary''</ref> in an [autocracy](/source/autocracy).

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