During a brief flirtation in the world of Real Estate nearly 40 years ago I embarked on a polytech course for a Real Estate Licence that included a paper on “Contract Law”.
It was comprehensive in covering what was required to make an agreement between parties an enforceable Contract, even down to verbal and handshakes.
Admittedly it was in terms of all law still rather shallow but one stand out for me that has arisen lately as to any binding terms emanating from the rather chaotic assembly at Waitangi nearing 200 years ago the increasingly toxic environment of race relations currently needs a degree of relitigation in Legislative decision making is the now established facts around language and understanding by the parties.
On one side stood a military governor who held standing as appointed by a representative legislative body, the Government of the United Kingdom who were attempting to establish dominion over lands recently colonised in the norms and established order of the day.
On the other side were a bunch of disparate leaders who had obtained power over native peoples with no established laws beyond might is right and occupation of any and all lands believed to be “Owned” resulting from conquest. The Language of these native peoples was entirely Oral and it was down to some itinerant padres of the UK to try to attempt to create a written version for the Paper to be signed.
Now it is being revealed after almost two centuries there are today being used, more than one version following the 1840 ceremonial signing and any one version when appropriate for the Tribunal and the courts to interpret so as I think lawyer trained Richard Prebble points out, the whole “house of cards” is toppling and there is no treaty as such in our inherited UK based laws.
The fact that the Native signatories had no substantive right to be signing anything on behalf of”Their Peoples in recognised laws of the time , with others such as the Bay of Plenty mob, Tu Hoe who never signed at all, pretty well sets the whole matter null and void.
All this country needs to do is acknowledge that basic fact legislatively, end the whole handbrake industry and move on as one nation, one people, one law one government.
No Minister 
The whole point is to transfer wealth from common commonwealth ownership into the hands of the priveledged on the basis they have a smidgin of Maori blood.
the Maori hoi polloi who have been deployed to make a lot of noise over this matter and currently live in squalor will continue to live in squalor as the self appointed Maori elite slurp at the treaty trough
Relax, breathe, it’s OK.
National and NZ1st are going to take all references to the fictitious treaty principles out of current and future legislation.
The only and perhaps good reason that ditched ACT’s bill was to prevent a referendum in which too many totally dumb and clueless “ordinary, simple folk” might vote the wrong way.
It’s common knowledge that the clever Neo-Marist propaganda has been very effective and that the majority of Kiwis have the critical thinking skills and ability of a mushroom.
They have been kept in the dark and fed bullshit for over 40 years so what would we expect?
The minority of extremely wealthy donors (aka Oligarchs) that fund and control the parties in this coalition have been playing “dumb ’em down and rip ’em off” since about 1973 and are not going to allow the great unwashed to decide anything for themselves.
All the names and numbers are there to see and one lovely person even “donated” $500,000.00 to the Nats. Nothing to see here? Not for the mushrooms.
No worries mate because our betters have it all well planned to take all the wealth created by the efforts of those disposable wage and salary workers and spend it “properly” as only they know how.
Our only role as the common folk is to ignore what is in clear view, do as we are told when we are told to do it, argue and fight with one another as members of hostile “identity groups”, bend over and take it and then say “thanks for the scraps”.
It’s all good in the hood (or cartel) because wonderful new technologies are coming to do all the work for the “better people” and the rest will be happy to own nothing and do as they are told.
What about the Lefties you might ask? They have skin in the game as well in spite of their fake opposition.
Welcome to what will be called Neo-Feudalism. You might even learn to like it or else.