22 HAWAIIAN GROUP. 



CONSTITUTION. 



It is our design to regulate our kingdom according to the above 

 principles, and thus seek the greatest prosperity both of all the chiefs 

 and all the people of these Hawaiian Islands. But we are aware that 

 we cannot ourselves alone accomplish such an object. God must be 

 our aid, for it is his province alone to give perfect protection and pro- 

 perty. Wherefore we first present our supplication to him that he will 

 a;uide us to riffht measures and sustain us in our work. 



It is, therefore, our fixed decree : — 



1. That no law shall be enacted which is at variance with the word 

 of the Lord Jehovah, or at variance with the general spirit of his word. 

 All laws of the island shall be in consistency with the general spirit of 

 God's law. 



2. All men in every religion shall be protected in worshipping 

 Jehovah, and serving him according to their own understanding, but 

 no man shall ever be punished for neglect of God, unless he injures his 

 neighbour, or bring evil on the kingdom. 



3. The law shall give redress to every man who is injured by 

 another, without a fault of his own, and shall protect all men while 

 they conduct properly, and shall punish all men who commit crime 

 against the kingdom or against individuals; and no unequal law shall 

 be passed for the benefit of one to the injury of another. 



4. No man shall be punished, unless his crime be first made mani- 

 fest, neither shall he be punished unless he be first brought to trial in 

 the presence of his accusers, and they have met face to face, and the 

 trial having been conducted according to law, and the crime made 

 manifest in their presence, then punishment may be inflicted. 



5. No man or chief shall be permitted to sit as judge or act on a 

 jury to try his particular friend or enemy, or one who is especially 

 connected with him. Wherefore, if any man be condemned or ac- 

 quitted, and it shall afterwards be made to appear that some one who 

 tried him acted with partiality, for the purpose of favouring his friend 

 or injuring his enemy, or for the purpose of enriching himself, then 

 there shall be a new trial allowed before those who are impartial. 



EXPOSITION OF THE PE.INCIPLES ON WHICH THE PRESENT DYNASTY IS FOUNDED. 



The origin of the present government and system of polity is as 

 follows : Kamehameha I. was the founder of the kingdom, and to him 

 belonged all the land from one end of the islands to the other, though 

 it was not his own private property. It belonged to the chiefs and 



