[Avodah] Halakhos of a US Governor

[Simon Montagu]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
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> When greeting the Queen of England, one does not say "shechalaq
> mikevodo levasar vedam" besheim umalkhus because her majesty doesn't
> make life-and-death decisions over her subjects.


Really? I don't know about constitutional monarchs in other countries, but
the metziut in the UK is that the sovereign personifies the state -- for
example criminal cases are listed as Rex/Regina v. P'loni -- and even today
when capital punishment has been abolished the state does make life/death
decisions over its subjects in some circumstances. Are there shu"tim that
address the specific case of the sovereign of the UK?
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