Legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Legislature of the Hawaiian Islands1 Legislative Assembly of the Hawaiian Kingdom2 | |
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Aliiolani Hale, Honolulu | |
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| 1Name of Parliament from 1852 to 1864 2Name of Parliament from 1864 to 1893 3Structure in place from 1840 to 1864 |
The Legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom (
democratic principles
. Prior to this the monarchs ruled under a Council of Chiefs (ʻAha Aliʻi).
Structure
The Legislature from 1840 to 1864 was
unicameral
Legislature.
House of Nobles
The members of the upper House of Nobles (Hale ʻAhaʻōlelo Aliʻi) were appointed by the Monarch with the advice of his Privy Council. It also served as the court of impeachment for any royal official. Members were usually Hawaiian aliʻis, nobles, and royal or wealthy individuals. The position had no salary. It originally consisted of the
annexation in 1898, this body was reconstituted as a Senate under the territorial constitution of the Territory of Hawaii
.
House of Representatives
The members of the lower House of Representatives (Hale ʻAhaʻōlelo Makaʻāinana) were elected by popular vote from several districts in the Kingdom. Revenue-oriented bills were issued through the House of Representatives, and it also served as the "
grand inquest
" of the Kingdom.
History
From 1840 to 1864, the Legislature existed as a
unicameral) legislature. This Constitution also created property and literacy requirements for both Legislature members and voters; these requirements were later repealed by the Legislature in 1874 during the reign of King Lunalilo. The subsequent 1887 Constitution, known as the "Bayonet Constitution," restored the two chambers as a bicameral legislature and made the revived upper House of Nobles elected to six-year terms, with higher property ownership requirements.[3]
Following the contentious
State of Hawaii under the 1959 Hawaii Admission Act and Constitution
.
Presidents of the House of Nobles
- King Kamehameha III (1840–1851)
- Keoni Ana (1852–1854)
- Lot Kamehameha (1855)
- Keoni Ana (1856)
- Legislature did not meet in 1857
- Mataio Kekūanaōʻa (1858–1860)
- Legislature did not meet in 1861
- Lot Kamehameha (1862)
- Legislature didn't meet in 1863
Speaker of the House of Representatives
- William Little Lee (1851)
- George Morison Robertson (1852–1853)
- Asa Goodale Tyerman Thurston (1854)
- George Morison Robertson (1855–1856)
- Legislature did not meet in 1857
- George Morison Robertson (1858–1859)
- James W. Austin (1859)
- Lawrence McCully (1860)
- Legislature did not meet in 1861
- William Webster (1862)
- Legislature did not meet in 1863
Presidents of the Legislature
- Mataio Kekūanaōʻa (1864–1868)
- Paul Nahaolelua (1870–1874)
- Charles Reed Bishop (1874)
- Godfrey Rhodes (1876–1878)
- Charles Reed Bishop (1880)
- Godfrey Rhodes (1882–1884)
- John Smith Walker (1886)
- Samuel Gardner Wilder (1887)
- William Richards Castle (1887)
- Samuel Gardner Wilder (1888)
- William Richards Castle (1888)
- John Smith Walker (1890–1893)
Vice-Presidents of the Legislature
- Samuel Northrup Castle (1864)
- Godfrey Rhodes (1866)
- John Mott-Smith (1867), pro tempore
- Godfrey Rhodes (1868)
- Harvey Rexford Hitchcock Jr. (1870)
- David Howard Hitchcock Sr. (1872–1873)
- Simon Kaloa Kaʻai (1874)
- Luther Aholo (1876–1886)
- John Kauhane (1887–1893)
See also
- 1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom
- Cabinet of the Hawaiian Kingdom
- Privy Council of the Hawaiian Kingdom
- Supreme Court of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Further reading
- Hawaii (1918). Robert Colfax Lydecker (ed.). Roster Legislatures of Hawaii, 1841–1918. Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Company.
References
- ^ "The 1840 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii". Hawaiian Electronic Library. 1840. Retrieved 2009-11-25.
- hdl:10524/444.
- ISBN 978-0-313-27950-8.
- ^ KS’ Ho‘okahua Cultural Vibrancy Group. "The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy" (PDF). Retrieved 29 October 2023.