Maggy Wassilieff is a regular commenter at Farrar’s Blog, her contributions hold a certain richness in quality too often absent in such a forum.

This morning Maggy links to an opinion piece from “The New Zealand Center for Political Research” written by a former Judge Anthony Willy on the current matter of Maori parliamentary representation.

Anthony Willy is a Barrister and Solicitor, who served as a Judge on four Courts: District, Environment, Tax and Valuation. He is a former Lecturer in Law at Canterbury University. He presently acts as an Arbitrator, a Commercial mediator, a Resource Management Act Commissioner, and is a Director of several companies.

So this appears to be a person who has ventured out from the incestuous little cadre of airheads who inhabit the upper echelons of the New Zealand judicial system with their extraordinary notions they are arbiters of law far beyond that which a majority of the peasant class regard as the function of the parliament that supposedly represents the common people.
A reality so beautifully laid out in the preamble to the US Constitution, a founding document that separates the three divisions of power in that Nation: The Legislature, The Judiciary and the Executive.
An actual well considered founding document that consigns the pacification document far too many New Zealanders consider as the basic beginning of nationhood for this island nation deep in the South Pacific to a nonsensical inanity.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

The executive includes the President with the Cabinet, The judiciary with the Supreme Court at its head to interpret the wishes of the Legislature and maintain the separation from the executive and the legislature divided into lower house all members facing facing election every two years and the Senate with six year term members, one third facing their electorate along side the two year lower house members.

Mr Willy makes a case well worth reading, possibly a most sane summary I have encountered.

Thankyou Maggy for giving it oxygen.