Add to ORKGIn 1867, the New Zealand House of Representatives passed the Maori Representation Act, which entitled Māori males aged twenty-one and over to vote for a Māori member of the House. This article traces the constitutional origins of the Act, and concludes with a survey of the initial responses in some Māori communities to the passage of the legislation. What is evident in this analysis is that the Act was driven by various motives, ranging from pacifying Māori hostility, to the desire by some legislators to secure a parliamentary presence for Māori in order to make the House more representative
In 1840 the indigenous Maori tribes of New Zealand ceded the sovereignty of New Zealand to the Briti...
This work aims to describe the disappearance of an election issue during the life of the Parliament ...
The Wairau Affray was much more than a clash or conflict about land between the Nelson settlers and ...
This thesis attempts to show the importance of the work of the New Zealand parliament from 1868-70 t...
This thesis explores the nature of ambivalence in Maori political thought as expressed during John B...
By 1858 New Zealand had had less than twenty years of settled government and a responsible ministry ...
New Zealand’s Electoral Act 1956, and in particular the entrenched (or “reserved”) provisions it int...
The second parliament constitutes an important landmark in the political development of New Zealand,...
Today Maori are thought, by some, to be a privileged people. Not only are they considered to have be...
In 1853, New Zealand began a quasi-federal experiment that ended surprisingly quickly. New Zealand\u...
This article discusses the Omahu affair, a prominent legal drama that took place in the late 19th ce...
This article addresses one particular feature of New Zealand’s constitution: the continuing combinat...
This thesis attempts to understand the intellectual milieu of Maori society in the early colonial p...
When the British first arrived in New Zealand, the lives of the Māori changed forever. Though the Br...
The Treaty was a constitutional agreement entered into by Maori, then sovereign of New Zealand, and ...
In 1840 the indigenous Maori tribes of New Zealand ceded the sovereignty of New Zealand to the Briti...
This work aims to describe the disappearance of an election issue during the life of the Parliament ...
The Wairau Affray was much more than a clash or conflict about land between the Nelson settlers and ...
This thesis attempts to show the importance of the work of the New Zealand parliament from 1868-70 t...
This thesis explores the nature of ambivalence in Maori political thought as expressed during John B...
By 1858 New Zealand had had less than twenty years of settled government and a responsible ministry ...
New Zealand’s Electoral Act 1956, and in particular the entrenched (or “reserved”) provisions it int...
The second parliament constitutes an important landmark in the political development of New Zealand,...
Today Maori are thought, by some, to be a privileged people. Not only are they considered to have be...
In 1853, New Zealand began a quasi-federal experiment that ended surprisingly quickly. New Zealand\u...
This article discusses the Omahu affair, a prominent legal drama that took place in the late 19th ce...
This article addresses one particular feature of New Zealand’s constitution: the continuing combinat...
This thesis attempts to understand the intellectual milieu of Maori society in the early colonial p...
When the British first arrived in New Zealand, the lives of the Māori changed forever. Though the Br...
The Treaty was a constitutional agreement entered into by Maori, then sovereign of New Zealand, and ...
In 1840 the indigenous Maori tribes of New Zealand ceded the sovereignty of New Zealand to the Briti...
This work aims to describe the disappearance of an election issue during the life of the Parliament ...
The Wairau Affray was much more than a clash or conflict about land between the Nelson settlers and ...