Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 13, 2024 4:51:22 GMT 12
Barrie Davis: TRICK OR TRIBUNAL.
To identify the purpose of the Treaty, it is useful to place the Treaty within its changing times as it was only one of a string of documents that were instrumental in bringing about the New Zealand nation. These include the Declaration of Independence of 1835; Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter of 1839; the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840; Hobson’s Proclamation of Sovereignty on 21st May 1840; and Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter of 16 November 1840.
It is often claimed that the Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand’s founding document, but that isn’t so. By the Royal Charter/Letters Patent of 1839 New Zealand was already under the laws and dependency of New South Wales when the Treaty was signed. The Treaty obtained from the Maoris agreement to recognize the sovereign authority of the Crown (see Normanby’s instructions below). New Zealand was subsequently founded as a separate entity by Queen Victoria’s 16 November 1840 “Charter for erecting the Colony of New Zealand, and for creating and establishing a Legislative Council and an Executive Council.” By what is now called the Constitutional Charter of New Zealand 1840, or just the Charter of 1840, New Zealand was made a British Colony with its own Governor, political, legal and justice systems in 1841. The Charter of 1840 does not mention the Treaty of Waitangi and so is not expressly dependent on it. It was followed by the Royal Charter of 1846 and the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, which is often claimed to be the definitive instrument……
Read on here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/02/barrie-davis-trick-or-tribunal.html
To identify the purpose of the Treaty, it is useful to place the Treaty within its changing times as it was only one of a string of documents that were instrumental in bringing about the New Zealand nation. These include the Declaration of Independence of 1835; Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter of 1839; the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840; Hobson’s Proclamation of Sovereignty on 21st May 1840; and Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter of 16 November 1840.
It is often claimed that the Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand’s founding document, but that isn’t so. By the Royal Charter/Letters Patent of 1839 New Zealand was already under the laws and dependency of New South Wales when the Treaty was signed. The Treaty obtained from the Maoris agreement to recognize the sovereign authority of the Crown (see Normanby’s instructions below). New Zealand was subsequently founded as a separate entity by Queen Victoria’s 16 November 1840 “Charter for erecting the Colony of New Zealand, and for creating and establishing a Legislative Council and an Executive Council.” By what is now called the Constitutional Charter of New Zealand 1840, or just the Charter of 1840, New Zealand was made a British Colony with its own Governor, political, legal and justice systems in 1841. The Charter of 1840 does not mention the Treaty of Waitangi and so is not expressly dependent on it. It was followed by the Royal Charter of 1846 and the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, which is often claimed to be the definitive instrument……
Read on here > breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/02/barrie-davis-trick-or-tribunal.html