The myth of cession: Public law textbooks and the Treaty of Waitangi

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The myth of cession: Public law textbooks and the Treaty of Waitangi

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Victoria University of Wellington

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The Waitangi Tribunal has recently found that the te Tiriti o Waitangi, as signed and understood in 1840, was not a cession of sovereignty, thus confirming the views of a generation of historians. Although some legal scholars have agreed with this view, mainstream public law scholarship – and Pākehā constitutional discourse more broadly – have not yet caught up. Three textbooks, Joseph’s Constitutional and Administrative Law, Palmer and Palmer’s Bridled Power and Morris’ Law Alive each portra...

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Research paper

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Date created

2015

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Blincoe, Emily

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https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/19408

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Treaty of Waitangi / Constitutional law / Text books / Textbooks

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