Mr. President. recently observed that this weeks congressional hearings on military assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan contras "was not an inappropriate way to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Constitution." I would agreeand pray that it proves to be an instructive way to observe this historic milestone. In the past 2 centuries. this remarkable doctrinethis blueprint not only for a government but for a political way of lifehas guided our Nations growth as a pluralistic society. a nation of immigrants. Our Aloha State is unique in that it was first populated by an indigenous people of Polynesian roots who did not choose to emigrate to America but whose land became a territory of the United States by annexation. But they. too. lived by a political credo consonant with the American Constitution. The Native Hawaiian people were also united into a single union late in the 18th century by a young warrior named Kamehameha. a truly remarkable "founding father" whose statue now stands in the Statuary Hall of the Capitol in Washington.
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