Elements of a Nation
There are four conditions to qualify as a nation: Territory, Population, Sovereignty, and Government. These are accepted standards that are articulated in international public law. Before it was annexed to the United States, the Kingdom of Hawai'i fulfilled these qualifications.
Without a document from the lawful Hawaiian Government consenting to U.S. occupation, the cession of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States depended on the removal or obfuscation of these four conditions of nationhood.
GOVERNMENT was the first to be suspended: the monarch was removed and the parliament emptied. This separated the citizenry from their elected representatives and impaired their ability to exercise their political authority -- their SOVEREIGNTY. The absence of a chief executive and a legislative body made it possible for the government of the annexationists to convey control of the islands to America, thereby reclassifying the entire Hawaiian POPULATION as U.S. nationals.
It is the unconfirmed status of the final condition -- TERRITORY -- that revealed the imperfect claim the United States has on the Hawaiian Islands. And it was shown for all the world to see in 1993.
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