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| Genre/Form: | Treaties |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Brookfield, F.M. Waitangi and indigenous rights. Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607384598 Online version: Brookfield, F.M. Waitangi and indigenous rights. Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607786213 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
F M Brookfield; Baragwanath, Justice. |
| ISBN: | 1869401840 9781869401849 |
| OCLC Number: | 43806568 |
| Description: | 253 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | pt. 1. -- Introduction -- 1. COURTS, CONSTITUTIONS AND REVOLUTIONS -- Revolution : definitions -- The non-revolutionary coup d'etat -- Kelsen and the revolution : change in the basic norm -- The courts and revolutionary change -- Courts as upholders of the constitution -- The state under threat : emergency measures under the necessity principle -- The court and the usurper : (i) the de facto doctrine -- The court and the usurper : (ii) full legal recognition? -- A supra-constitutional jurisdiction? -- Revolutions, coups, and the ordinary citizen : when does allegiance shift? -- The supra-constitutional jurisdiction in retrospect : merits, difficulties, limits -- Legality and legitimacy : separate concepts -- Prescription and the squatters title : private law analogies. international law -- 2. LEGITIMACY AND REVOLUTION -- Durability, morality and justice in the legal order -- Walker's case : durability of the revolutionary order -- Justice in the post-revolutionary order : questions of sufficient legitimation -- Losers in the revolution : their expectations of justice -- Partial recognition of pre-revolutionary rights (i) : Rome, Islam and Spain -- Partial recognition of pre-revolutionary rights (ii) : modern Western imperialism -- Aboriginal title -- Aboriginal treaty rights -- 3. REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY AND COLONIZATION -- Revolutionary conquests of Western imperialism : problems of legitimacy -- Prescription (durability) v ideological opposition -- Christendom and Islam -- 1066 (England), 1169 (Ireland) and all that -- English/British imperialism : ideology -- Ideology of western imperialism and its legacies -- Gramsci, wars of position and of manoeuvre, and the passive revolution -- The right to self-determination and the right to rebel; and indigenous people -- 'Indigenous peoples : a relevant concept?' -- pt. 2. -- 4. AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND : THE CONSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUND -- Maori legal and constitutional orders -- The United Kingdom constitution -- Preliminaries to colonization -- An attempted revolution? The declaration of confederation and independence -- The treaty of Waitangi -- What was (purportedly) ceded and what was reserved? -- Kawanatanga : a subordinate power? -- Did kawanatanga extend to Maori? -- The non-signatories -- The tribunal and kawanatanga : summary comment -- 5. REVOLUTIONS AND COUNTER-REVOLUTIONS 1840-1986 -- The 1840 revolution -- Rules of the 1840 revolution -- Maori as British subjects -- Maori autonomy -- Section 71 of the New Zealand constitution act -- The division of the crown : another revolution? -- The revolution and the land : the legislature and common law Maori title -- Land under water as customary land -- 6. LEGITIMATION OF THE 1840 REVOLUTION, AND THE SPECIAL CASE OF THE CHATHAMS -- Walker, Kelsey and the 1840 revolution -- The ideologies of colonization -- To Christianize and civilize -- 'Use or lose' -- A legitimated consequence of the revolution: the end of Maori slavery -- 'General principles of humanity', transcultural principles, and legitimation -- Two violent societies -- Pakeha rule of law : end of Maori feuding, greater protection of the individual? -- Kelsey and the colonial courts -- Partial recognition of rangatiratanga -- Legislative recognition of 'principles' of the Treaty of Waitangi -- The courts, the treaty and its principles -- The courts and legitimation of the revolution -- Revolutions on the Chathams : 1835-36; 1842, legitimation? -- 7. CONCLUSION : CONTROVERSIAL PRESENT AND (QUIETLY?) REVOLUTIONARY FUTURE -- A quiet revolution and a qualified Maori autonomy? -- Entrenchment : the machinery of the revolution -- The radical alternatives and overt revolution -- Conclusion. |
| Other Titles: | Waitangi and indigenous rights |
| Responsibility: | by F.M. (Jock) Brookfield ; foreword by the Hon. Justice David Baragwanath. |
Abstract:
This is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Treaty of Waitangi, exploring how a revolutionary taking of power by one people over another may be partly legitimated, and injuries redressed. The work examines the legal and constitutional issues surrounding the Treaty of Waitangi.
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- Treaty of Waitangi -- (1840 February 6)
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- Legal status, laws, etc.
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- Government relations.
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- Civil rights.
- Constitutional law -- New Zealand.
- Decolonization -- New Zealand.
- Indigenous peoples -- Great Britain -- Colonies.
- New Zealand -- Politics and government.
- Treaty of Waitangi (1840 February 6)
- Constitutional law.
- Decolonization.
- Indigenous peoples -- British colonies.
- Politics and government.
- New Zealand.
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- Land tenure -- History.
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- Government relations -- History.
- Maori (New Zealand people) -- Claims -- History.
- Constitutional history -- New Zealand.
- Legitimacy of governments -- New Zealand -- History.
- Treaty of Waitangi (6 February 1840).
- Maori.
- Tiriti o Waitangi.
- Kāwanatanga.
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