| Ethnic and racial cleavages in Pacific Island constitutions ( 98 visites depuis le 21-12-2004 ) | |
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Journal of Pacific History, The, Sept, 1997
EXTRAIT : 'God has made all men of one blood' and 'there shall be but one law for Tongans and non-Tongans.' (from Sects 1 and 4, Tongan Constitution)'We are one. As a people, in our language in our traditions, and in our common habitation and love of this island, we are one.' (from Preamble, Kosrae Constitution) If diligent inquiry be made into the constitutions of the various Pacific Island polities, it will be found that most contain provisions which are premised upon or linked to racial delineations and/or distinctive ethnic differences. Belying the reference to 'oneness' of blood in the Tongan Constitution, and there being but one law applicable to all, the Constitution proceeds to limit land allotments to 'native born subjects' (Sect. 29). The Kosrae Constitution, in contrast, is internally consistent in its dealing with ethnicity: starting with a preamble recognising the existence of a distinctive Kosraean identity - language, traditions, common habitation, love of island - the Constitution builds on this by limiting eligibility for holding the state's two highest executive posts to 'Kosraeans by birth' (Art. V, Sect. 4) and declaring only persons 'Kosraeans by descent' may acquire title to land (Art. XI, Sect. 7). | |
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| Indigenous Self-Determiation and its Implementation ( 99 visites depuis le 21-12-2004 ) | |
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Pacific Studies, Vol. 23 No. 3 & 4 (September, December 2000) EXTRAIT : A political scientist examines the parallels between Hawai‘i and the Northern Territory of Australia with respect to statehood and the self-determination of their indigenes, including a consideration of the bases on which the indigenous right of self-determination rests and of the questions associated with its implementation. | |
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| The Micronesian Executive ( 93 visites depuis le 20-11-2004 ) | |
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The Micronesian Executive: The Federated States of Micronesia; Pacific Studies, Vol. 14 No. 1 (November 1990) - Online Collections at BYU For approximately a decade now, three adjacent Pacific Island polities --the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands--have been enjoying the heady experience of exercising self-government under the leadership of their respective executives. Now classed as “independent” nations,1 they first existed as dispersed individual islands or island clusters under warring chieftains until they came under the colonial rule of different European nations at roughly the same time. | |
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