Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 26, 2016 7:37:15 GMT 12
The Northern Advocate 26/1/16
NATION’S TREATY
Correspondent John Rawson commented, “We are told, and I accept, that the Treaty is the only written document forming the basis of this country’s constitution.”
Well, Mr Rawson, although I agree completely with your TPPA comments you may be pleased to discover that you have been seriously misinformed regarding the above.
Thanks to researcher Ross Baker of the One New Zealand Foundation, our first constitutional document has been unearthed after being concealed for 176 years.
Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter was issued on November 16, 1840, sub-titled “Constitutional Charter of New Zealand”.
This was the day that our nation was founded.
Prior to that date NZ had been governed under the jurisdiction of New South Wales, and it was this charter that gave NZ the right to become an independent British Colony with its own governor and its own government.
The Treaty of Waitangi’s sole purpose, signed on February 6, 1840, was to gain sovereignty for Queen Victoria over all of New Zealand’s people, for only then could this new constitution be implemented.
So the Treaty, although an important stepping stone, did not even feature in the new constitution as all NZers were then considered to be united as one under British law and the Queen did not have the authority to grant so-called special rights to any one sector of NZ citizens.
So now we have another document, along with the “Littlewood” final English draft of the Treaty, that is an inconvenient truth.
However, truth must never be allowed to interfere with the sanitised, politically correct views churned out by New Zealand’s historical propaganda machine.
By the way, has anyone noticed that the preamble to the Treaty seems to have vanished?
You know, the bit where Maori unreservedly agree to accept the Queen’s sovereignty.
M M
Maungaturoto
NATION’S TREATY
Correspondent John Rawson commented, “We are told, and I accept, that the Treaty is the only written document forming the basis of this country’s constitution.”
Well, Mr Rawson, although I agree completely with your TPPA comments you may be pleased to discover that you have been seriously misinformed regarding the above.
Thanks to researcher Ross Baker of the One New Zealand Foundation, our first constitutional document has been unearthed after being concealed for 176 years.
Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter was issued on November 16, 1840, sub-titled “Constitutional Charter of New Zealand”.
This was the day that our nation was founded.
Prior to that date NZ had been governed under the jurisdiction of New South Wales, and it was this charter that gave NZ the right to become an independent British Colony with its own governor and its own government.
The Treaty of Waitangi’s sole purpose, signed on February 6, 1840, was to gain sovereignty for Queen Victoria over all of New Zealand’s people, for only then could this new constitution be implemented.
So the Treaty, although an important stepping stone, did not even feature in the new constitution as all NZers were then considered to be united as one under British law and the Queen did not have the authority to grant so-called special rights to any one sector of NZ citizens.
So now we have another document, along with the “Littlewood” final English draft of the Treaty, that is an inconvenient truth.
However, truth must never be allowed to interfere with the sanitised, politically correct views churned out by New Zealand’s historical propaganda machine.
By the way, has anyone noticed that the preamble to the Treaty seems to have vanished?
You know, the bit where Maori unreservedly agree to accept the Queen’s sovereignty.
M M
Maungaturoto