[Avodah] Netziv on Monarchy

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 06:43:43PM -0500, Ira Tick wrote:
: So the question remains, which form of government is ideal for a Torah
: society, all other things being equal?

I asked the same question a short while back WRT economics.

There is an alternative possibility in both cases, rather than saying
the Torah wants a constitutional monarchy or a democracy, or where in the
spectrum between communism and lesseiz fair economics the Torah requires,
perhaps the decisision is situational. Rather than choosing a system,
the Torah gives us guidelines for how to implement the system we choose
biqedushah. (Barring some alternatives as being altogether assur.)

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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