Hawaiian Law

The Rein­stated Hawai­ian Government’s laws con­sist of a fun­da­men­tal organic doc­u­ment — The Amended Con­sti­tu­tion of Hawaii 2000 and the Com­piled Res­o­lu­tions. These two doc­u­ments serve as the basic legal struc­ture for the oper­a­tion and func­tion of the Hawai­ian Government.

The Amended Con­sti­tu­tion of Hawaii 2000 was approved by the King­dom of Hawai’i’s elected leg­is­la­tors at its Con­sti­tu­tional Con­ven­tion of March 10,11, and 12, 2000. This Con­sti­tu­tional Con­ven­tion was held in Waimea, Hawaii.

On April 29, 2001 this con­sti­tu­tion was rat­i­fied by the cit­i­zenry in a nation­wide plebiscite. On April 14, 2001 and again on April 3, 2004 amend­ments to this con­sti­tu­tion were imple­mented and ratified.

The Com­piled Res­o­lu­tions serve as the exist­ing statutes of the Hawai­ian gov­ern­ment. These res­o­lu­tions were adopted and passed by the Leg­is­la­tors (Mana Kau Kanawai) through the years 1999 – 2007. These res­o­lu­tions are valid for a period of one year. The fol­low­ing year these res­o­lu­tions are pre­sented for renewal, amend­ment or matured.

Dur­ing the years 1999 – 2003, the Mana Kau Kanawai con­vened four times a year. Today, the Mana Kau Kanawai con­venes twice a year to con­tinue con­struct­ing the laws for the government.

This process began with the issuance of the Writ of Proclamation.