The U.S. 0ccupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Continuity of Hawaiian Statehood
- ìThus, whether a law-abiding attitude of the occupying power makes it possible for the legal order of the occupied State to retain a certain amount of effectiveness in the occupied territory, or whether, in disregard of the Hague Conventions the occupant eliminates even the last traces of that effectiveness, the continuity of the occupied State is safeguarded, not by an act of will of the occupying power, but by a clear, objective rule of international lawî (Marek, Identity and Continuity of States in Public International Law)