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The Convention also provided for Japanese living in Hawaii to be able to naturalize as Hawaiian citizens, and to earn the right to vote. These rights, however, were nullified by the [[1887]] Bayonet Constitution forced upon the Hawaiian monarchy by a small group of white businessmen, severely weakening the monarchy and abrogating political power and freedoms for non-whites in the islands.
The Convention also provided for Japanese living in Hawaii to be able to naturalize as Hawaiian citizens, and to earn the right to vote. These rights, however, were nullified by the [[1887]] Bayonet Constitution forced upon the Hawaiian monarchy by a small group of white businessmen, severely weakening the monarchy and abrogating political power and freedoms for non-whites in the islands.
The Convention was revised in 1887, and later revised again, to require laborers to pay significant portions of their meager incomes to the Hawaiian government, to help cover the costs of their transportation, medical treatment, etc.
==References==
==References==
*Franklin Odo and Kazuko Sinoto, ''A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaii 1885-1924'', Bishop Museum (1985), 22.
*Franklin Odo and Kazuko Sinoto, ''A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawaii 1885-1924'', Bishop Museum (1985), 22-23.
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