For although the English word “constitution” is often seen to be a complicated and complex term, it simply means ‘the values and processes which a people choose to determine their own destiny’. In our view it is fundamental to the proper exercise of the right of self-determination which ...
With the English law, [they] might lock you up, but they don’t understand what the Māori lore is because they never been in that area… In Māoridom the biggest thing for us is the Māori lore. The Māori lore. I don’t care who you are. You could be the king and the queen....