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speak for my behalf. The rest, none, shouldnÓt even be up there. ThatÓs a concern I have right now, my rights as a Kanaka Maoli. ThatÓs all I have to say. Thank you. GALDONES:Thank you. Any questions? If none, I would like to call on, you may be excused, ladies. Thank you. Dwight Vincent, M. Staszkow? PUBLIC:He just stepped out. HeÓll return. GALDONES:Is Dwight Vincent here? VINCENT:Good morning. IÓm making a -. GALDONES:Could you please raise your right hand? VINCENT:I donÓt make sworn statements, but what I do make is pub protest statements. In order for, to get me, make me take an oath, you have to have authority. I believe there is no authority. Each and every one of you took the oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution, you nullified your aut contradictions going on. So, if youÓll let me, IÓll make my public statement under protest. GALDONES:You may proceed. VINCENT:Okay. If you look at the history here in Hawaii going back when the missionary families came over, they remained as U.S. citizen they wrote the Bayonete Constitution. In there they secured the right to vote; and, also, before that they was holding public office illegally as foreign nationals. It was a binding treaty between the United States and the Americans here. They later took over by writing the Bayonete Constitution which secured their right to vote in a foreign county, despite the treaty hanging over their head. In 1893, they threw out the Queen for writing a new Constitution to get rid of that 1887. ItÓs in the proclamation that Stanford B. Dole wrote. In 1894, they had to write a new Constitution. They called themselves the Republic of Hawaii. Why? As U.S. citizens, they were not recognized. The Provisional and the Republic was not recognized in the family of nations by treaty, so they were caught in a Catch 22. What do we do? We write a new Constitution which hoo the 1894. The 1887 had treaty signed by King Kalakaua, which was going to expire in 1898. So in 1898, at the time of the expiration of those treaties, they was caught in another Catch 22. What do we do now? TheyÓre not authorized to sign treaties. So what do we do? A joint resolution. A joint resolution has no force and effect of law in a foreign country. United States claimed that, annexed Hawaii to the United States without constitutional authority. They had placed Hawaii under the Northwest Ordinance of 1887; and thatÓs why Hawaii was called the Territory of the United States. California is under the same dilemma. Alaska, Philippines, South Korea, Cuba, Puerto Rico, everywhere felt like dominos under the Northwest Ordinance, which has no force and effect of law because it was superceded by the Constitution. In the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section -. Let me restate that. 22