Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 164, 3 April 1891 — The "Leo's" Views for the P. C Advertiser. [ARTICLE]

The "Leo's" Views for the P. C Advertiser.

, PART TIIIRI). To us it matters not in what form of government, the governmental powers are exercised. so long as it is legitimately used to earry out the eternal truths of God, as asserted in unmistakable and simple language in the Declaration of Independence, that <# Governments derive their just powers from the goyerned." If the people for just cause shoukl desire to change tbeir form of govern:nent, it is their inherent right to do so, and it still remains the same power. It is still to be resj>ected because it is legitimate. As an illustration of the ueriyation of power from the people, we will take for example Queen Victoria, whose soverergnty em hraces one of the grandest and most eomprehensive pf modern times. The Queen derived her power to govera as being first in line of successi6n to William the Fourth. Through one line she traces hcr royal lineage to William the Conqueror, who was a Nonnan Chief, and he derivcd hi& Chieftait.ship from the Normans and īn that line Victoria sprung frora t!ie People. Throngh the other line the Queen is from the House of Hynover, and Hanover is a province of Germany. When Queen Anne died t< the next in line ©f succession was George of Hanover, who bccame King of England as George the First. He received bis princely lineage from Henry the Lion, son of Henry the Proud. and was A prince of the House of Guelph. of Swafcaa. The father of the Houee of Gueiph, was a prince of the Alamanni, who invaded the Homan Empire, and establisheti their j>ower in what is now Bouthern Germany, and were the origin ofwhat is now the Geman naiion and Empire. This man was made a piinee by the gavage tribes of Germany. Thus also ihe royāl dignity of the Queen of Great Britain snrung from the people.

Asi(ie from this cvery ech )ul; boy knows that the power I is limited. The impenal power| of the sovereign is circumscribed by , the people. Bhe is simply the reDresentative of the governn:iental powen and that power is derived from the people, as is that of the Amehean Republic t of Brazil. of Frarif?e, and little Hawaii nei, with this difference. the rulers here have yet to learn from wīienee thfiy derive their authoritv. And instanee of the power of the people was demonstrated throngh' its leader, Hon. Giadstone, wHen in refusihg to sign a law, the Queen was to!d by'the head of the House of Gommon, that she must sign it. She exclaimed, "I am the Queen £nglajDdv 1 The Premier calmly replied: <l And lam the People of England." And she had to obey the wishes ef the People of England. The people, the creative power, ean command the chicf execuitive,* Ihe power of the people is above that of the ruler. Tlie Q»een of England i« siinp!y llie representntive of the pnople'a power, and if they should choose to dispense with the expensive hixurv of royalty, and change their form of government into t.hat ofa repuhlie, it wou!d be j>ut the legitimate exercipe of their right, and thepower thus fornied would be as mueh ordained of God as the power that now is or conld be. As with the cnse of the Queen of 35ngland, so it is with ail rulers. There never Has been a ruler on earth, outside of the theocracy of the Jewish people, whose authority was not primarily or ultimately, expressiy or permissively, derivcd from! the 'people. As we have stated, when derived their ijust powers from consent of the governed." it mattered not in whieh form it was exercised, so long as it was couducted in accordanee with the wish of that power whieh created it, and that whieh was created through the voice of tlie people was ordaiiied of God, and m order to.its pernetuation, it must be conducted consistent!y and jn accordance with the prinlaid down by the Creator, and whenever the executive by and <leviation from that principle endangers the welfare of the i>eople, it is our duty to fearle&.sjy poini out the errors that may lead state of anarchy, whieh is sure to follow all innovati©ng or deviations from what is natural and just.