On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Micha Berger <<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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When greeting the Queen of England, one does not say "shechalaq<br>
mikevodo levasar vedam" besheim umalkhus because her majesty doesn't<br>
make life-and-death decisions over her subjects.</blockquote><div><br>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?<br>
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