Open AccessCustomary Rights: Holding the Line
Author(s) -
Edward Ellison
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
public history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1833-4989
pISSN - 1037-9851
DOI - 10.5130/phrj.v13i0.252
Subject(s) - constitution , indigenous rights , indigenous , context (archaeology) , human rights , politics , rights of nature , government (linguistics) , land rights , political science , fundamental rights , law , right to property , bill of rights , law and economics , sociology , history , ethnology , archaeology , philosophy , ecology , linguistics , biology
This article explores the nature, history and significance of Maori customary rights in the New Zealand context, and argues there is a need for a New Zealand constitution which embodies human rights which recognise and uphold the customary rights of the indigenous peoples of this land and protects those rights from oppressive and discriminatory political acts of expediency by government