Noah Dolim

But it was eventually chopped.

And then, you know, there's kind of whispers in each decade.

But it wasn't a real, you know, kind of reality until that last period where, oh, this could actually really happen again.

under this new Committee of Safety.

And I just wanted to remind the listeners, too, this Committee of Safety that was working against Liliuokalani and eventually orchestrated the OVDA were the same group of men that had forced Kalakaua to sign the Bennett Constitution as well.

So as I was saying, again, Li'u had inherited that constitution and her main goal, the people, the Hawaiian people were asking the queen, please, please write a new constitution because that constitution, it didn't just affect the monarchy, it did affect the people.

That constitution brought in stricter voting qualifications, stricter qualifications for serving in the House of Representatives.

So Hawaiian people themselves were disenfranchised from the government.

They also, the Committee of Safety also were able to gain seats in the House of Nobles as well.

So some of the same men who wrote that constitution are now sitting in the House of Nobles, in that upper house.

So Lili Okorani goes, she's hard at work writing a new constitution.

She actually finishes a draft of that constitution.

She wants to put it before the legislature of the Hawaiian kingdom and the committee of safety, they have spies all over.

We don't know who exactly it was, but there is allegedly, you know, somebody within Liliu's camp who was relaying information to the committee of safety.

So they get wind that, hey, the queen is done with this constitution and she's going to put it before the legislature.

And that's when they decide to act upon that.

And basically,

cut off the queen before she can do any damage to their, their goals.

And that's the catalyst for the.

Yeah, so leading up to the actual January 17th, you know, Stevens, the minister, the U.S.