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Originally posted by lifesaver
Now I am confused. How can the member nations of the Commonwealth of the Brittish Empire, be soverign nations, yet have their official head of state be the ruler of another country? And why is the queen on half of the world's money?
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The Queen is on half the money, because for a long time her predecessors ruled half the world. As for the first question, the countries are autonomous, they make their own decisions, and operate without control or input from Great Britain. However the Queen is the figurehead of the nation. In Canada her, or her representative here (the Governor General) signs all bills into law and makes everything official. That being said, it is rare to non existent occassion that the Governor General/Soverign will veto a bill. The reason she exists is that historicaly the nations were ruled by Great Britain and unlike American Independance it was granted, not won in battle. So the ties to the UK still exist in the member countries.
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