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Does anyone know how the Magnitsky Act intersects w/ Louis XIV's (apocryphal) "I am The State"
The Magnitsky Act is supposed to apply sanctions to individuals. But what about when the individual in question is a monarch? An absolute monarch, specifically? Or -- and this is totally pulled out of nowhere -- a crown prince?
Can the monarch shield their assets by claiming they are the property of the office of the king/prince instead of the person? Can they even evade the travel restrictions this way? Or on the other hand are those charged with applying the sanctions bound to apply them regardless of the economic cataclysm which could follow from sanctioning an entire nation because the individual who owns virtually the entire nation is being sanctioned?
