Introduction

On March 13, 1999, the Kanaka Maoli (abo­rig­i­nal Hawai­ian peo­ple) ances­try from across the Hawai­ian Islands con­vened on the island of O’ahu to return their true and law­ful gov­ern­ment from its century-long exile. This action, to rein­state the for­mer inher­ent sov­er­eignty, was under­taken in accor­dance to inter­na­tional law and Hawai­ian King­dom Laws in response to “United States Pub­lic Law 103 – 150, A Joint Res­o­lu­tion to Offer an Apol­ogy to Native Hawai­ians on behalf of the United States, for the Over­throw of the King­dom of Hawaii.”

This act was passed by both houses of Con­gress and signed by Pres­i­dent Bill Clin­ton in 1993. This is what Hawai­ian Nation­als demanded from the United States gov­ern­ment and finally suc­ceeded in acquir­ing — a writ­ten confession.

To assure proper claimant sta­tus, the Rein­stated Hawai­ian King­dom and Gov­ern­ment was estab­lished to answer the legal oblig­a­tion cre­ated by the United States through U.S. Pub­lic Law 103 – 150.

The inher­ent Sovere­inty of Hawaiʻi

The Inher­ent Sov­er­eignty of Hawaii was the for­mer gov­ern­ment (polit­i­cal author­ity) of the Hawai­ian King­dom. The gov­ern­ment was a con­sti­tu­tional monar­chy com­prised of three branches: Exec­u­tive (Monarch and Privy Coun­cil), Leg­isla­tive (House of Nobles and Rep­re­sen­ta­tives), and Judi­cial (Supreme Court and lower courts).

Over­throw of a government

On Jan­u­ary 17, 1893, the inher­ent sov­er­eignty of Hawaii was removed from power by the United States Gov­ern­ment. As a result, the Hawai­ian King­dom was ille­gally over­thrown and the inher­ent sov­er­eignty placed into exile. Since that fate­ful day the Hawai­ian peo­ple have con­tin­u­ally strived to cor­rect that injus­tice. On the same day that the Hawai­ian Nation and its gov­ern­ment were over­thrown, her majesty, Queen Lili’uokalani issued a protest let­ter object­ing to the unlaw­ful acts com­mit­ted against her­self and the Hawai­ian King­dom and its gov­ern­ment. Through the issuance of her protest let­ter, Queen Lili’uokalani invoked inter­na­tional law and reserved the right of her peo­ple to reclaim their inher­ent sov­er­eignty rights and nation status.

Reclaim­ing a nation’s sovereignty

The Hawai­ian peo­ple pos­sess an inher­ent right to the for­mer Hawai­ian King­dom and gov­ern­ment. This inher­ent right is based upon the fact that our for­mer nation was acknowl­edged and rec­og­nized through­out the world. One of the fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ples of inter­na­tional law is the right of a peo­ple to claim their free­dom, lib­erty and nation­al­ity. This is the essence of the inher­ent right of a peo­ple to exist.

Man­i­fes­ta­tion through per­fect right doctrine

The inter­na­tional law prin­ci­ple of rights is sep­a­rated into two dis­tinct appli­ca­tions, per­fect right doc­trine and imper­fect right doc­trine. The rein­state­ment of the Hawai­ian King­dom is founded on the exer­cise of per­fect right. Our Mon­archs were knowl­edge­able in the appli­ca­tion of inter­na­tional law and exe­cuted all efforts to clev­erly secure the inher­ent sov­er­eign pow­ers of our Hawai­ian nation. To learn and under­stand the pow­ers pre­served to the inher­ent sov­er­eignty of Hawaii is to see the awe­some power reserved to reclaim inter­na­tional recog­ni­tion through the uni­fi­ca­tion of one Sov­er­eign nation.

Rein­stat­ing a nation

The law­ful gov­ern­ment of hawai’i has returned from exile

Hawai’i was an inde­pen­dent nation that had diplo­matic and com­mer­cial ties with coun­tries around the world prior to its unlaw­ful coup d’état in 1893 and sub­se­quent annex­a­tion by the United States in 1898.

Hawai’i will be an inde­pen­dent nation again. Very soon.

The law­ful gov­ern­ment of Hawai’i was never destroyed. It was never for­mally dis­solved in an offi­cial act of law.

Queen Lili’uokalani — the con­sti­tu­tional monarch of Hawai’i at the time of the over­throw — never con­sented to the occu­pa­tion of the United States. Her sub­jects never con­sented to for­eign rule.

The law­ful Hawai­ian Gov­ern­ment remained in a state of exile. Until March 13, 1999, when a gov­ern­ment pro tem was estab­lished in accor­dance with pub­lic inter­na­tional law and Hawai­ian King­dom Domes­tic Law. This re-established gov­ern­ment ful­filled the posi­tion of oblig­a­tion taken by the United States of Amer­ica in U.S. Pub­lic Law 103 – 150.

This tem­po­rary gov­ern­ment had one purpose:

Rein­state the law­ful gov­ern­ment of hawai’i

Notices were sent to sev­eral coun­tries pro­claim­ing Hawai’i’s intent to rein­state its gov­ern­ment de jure.

A cit­i­zen­ship drive was con­ducted amongst all the res­i­dents of the Hawai­ian Islands in order to iden­tify a dis­tinct pop­u­la­tion. The vot­ing dis­tricts of the King­dom of Hawai’i were rein­sti­tuted and the eli­gi­ble vot­ers elected a leg­is­la­ture on Novem­ber 6, 1999.

In March of 2000, this leg­is­la­ture amended the Hawai­ian King­dom Con­sti­tu­tion that was left in sus­pen­sion for the last 107 years. The cit­i­zens rat­i­fied this amended con­sti­tu­tion in a plebiscite on April 29^th.

Appli­ca­tions to the Office of the Prime Min­is­ter and the Exec­u­tive Cab­i­net were actively solicited. The qual­i­fied nom­i­nees to these offices were con­firmed by the Legislature.

The rein­state­ment process is nearly com­plete. The cit­i­zens of this nation will peace­ably claim their country’s inher­ent right to exist.