The power of making laws and enforcing them is called jurisdiction.
Explanation: Jurisdiction refers to the power granted to an official or court of law to exercise its authority over an individual, subject, matter and so on. It also refers to the description of a territory or region in which the system of law has authority. It is the power that an agency exercises over an individual or person.
the U.S. placed an embargo on exports to Cuba except for food and medicine after Cuba nationalized American-owned Cuban oil refineries without compensation.
