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From: phoenix@genat.UUCP (phoenix)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: The Commonwealth (really, citizenship of the Head of State)
Message-ID: <11@genat.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 01:35:19 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 29 01:35:19 1986
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Organization: Phoenix Temporal Restorations, Ultd.
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Keywords: monarchy, citizenship
Summary: monarchial forms of government

In article <2357@hcrvx2.UUCP> jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson) writes:
>In article <1883@watmath.UUCP> sahayman@watmath.UUCP (Steve Hayman) writes:
>>Well, for starters, the Queen is "Queen of Canada", and that's good
>>enough for me. 
>
>I'm curious. Is the Queen of *Canada* Canadian because she was born
>in this country, or is she Canadian by way of naturalization?
>

As far as I know, in the monarchial form of government (which is what we
have in this country, tempered by by both constitution and democracy)
the Head of State (in this case, the Queen) does not have to be either a
citizen nor a resident of the country they rule.

This, by the way, does not bother me, personally, in the least.
-- 



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