DOES THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM STILL EXIST?
The Maui News - May 8, 2009
The writer of an April 23 letter stated "The kingdom was extinguished . . . by dejure recognition of a new government of Hawai`i in 1894."
No nation explicitly recognized the Republic of Hawai`i as the dejure government. They only acknowledged the fact of the republic's actual control. De facto is defined as "In fact a state of affairs which must be accepted for all practical purposes but is illegal or illegitimate."
The Hawai`i Kingdom wasn't "extinguished per 1893 law...."
...The writer is correct is saying "the kingdom was not a wholly Native Hawaiian entity." The Hawaii Kingdom's existing claims are based on nationality, not ethnicity.
Therefore the Akaka Bill's attempts to reduce legitimate international kingdom claims to a race-based domestic dependent entity are worse than "nonsense."
This violates the U.S. Constitution, present day international law and the rights of all kingdom subjects and their Hawai`i-born descendants.
Dan Taylor
Haiku, Maui
