The sovereign has the authority to interpret the laws from "summary" of Hobbes: Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
In the exercise of the sovereign power, which is the supreme power of making laws, there is no judge of what is right or wrong, just or unjust, equal or unequal, but the sovereign itself. For the sovereign is the public soul, giving life and motion to the commonwealth. And just as the soul gives life and motion to the body, so too does the sovereign give life and motion to the laws. The interpretation of laws belongs to him who makes them. And since the sovereign is the maker of the laws, he is also the interpreter of them. To interpret the laws is not a distinct power from making them, but the application of them to particular cases. Just as the application of a rule to a particular case is not a distinct act from the making of the rule itself, but the exercise of the same power in a different manner. The sovereign's authority to interpret the laws is necessary for the preservation of order and the common good. For if there were no final arbiter of the law, every man would be a judge in his own case, and...
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