King Kamehamehena In Africa In The Late 1800's

After contact with the Europeans in the late 1700’s Africa decided to follow a path of political centralization under a new powerful monarchy led by King Kamehameha after he unified Hawaii and established the kingdom in the early 1800’s. Since a new structure for political centralization was required in order to rule over the islands that were all once individual kingdoms continuously fighting with one another, the king appointed a governor for each island; to which each governor was responsible for assigning tax collectors and other government officials. King Kamehameha also formed a council consisting of chiefs who had displayed loyalty in his wars of conquest and before his death in 1819, the king had added one more constitutional innovation,

During this time, men and women sat separately until King Kamehameha II entered a great feast and sat with the women and in that moment, the age-old Kapu system was fatally weakened. With the increasing amount of European and Asian Immigrants into Hawaii and the lack of recognizing benefits, the increasingly amount of conflicts and dangers that the contacts resulted in. By the mid 1800’s with the French building an empire and the British Empire dominating the political force of the world the Russians and Americans were both increasing interest in the pacific for political development. Due to pressure during the long reign of Kamehameha III (1825-1854,) Hawaii became a constitutional monarchy and in 1839 a missionary was enlisted to give the Hawaiian king and his councilors instructions on the American constitution and a bill of rights and code of laws were drafted in the Hawaiian language. This recognized the separation of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, and the king remained the paramount figure of all

This was directed towards the establishment of a dominant government that could be identified under international law during a period when the forces of imperialism were accumulating strength. With the decline of indigenous people, and increasing immigrants it seemed the survival of the Hawaiians was at steak,(INSERT FOOTNOTE, page 209) and the Hawaiian government desired to play foreign power off against another in an attempt to conserve their independence. With the great threat of America, the Hawaiian monarchy cultivated a political alliance with