08-22-2015, 06:06 AM
Being born in the country grants automatic citizenship in only about 35 of the planet's 185+ nations according to the Library of Congress. I don't know what the Kingdom of Hawaii's rules on citizenship were, but I do know that there were large numbers of non-Hawaiians living here at the time of the overthrow, perhaps even a majority. As Punaweb's Opihikao and other fair-minded and educated Hawaiians have acknowledged, a restoration (however unlikely and unwise it might be) would have to include those descendants to have any legitimacy. And that's the point at which most of the restoration based sovereignty proposals become race based and go off the tracks of reality.