State of Hawaiʻi

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Geologic history
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Prehistoric Hawaiʻi
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Hawaii
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=Geography=
 * Main article: Geography of Hawaiʻi

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State government
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Legislature
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Executive department
The State of Hawaiʻi is organized under a variant of the semi-presidential system, whereby the executive Power of the State is divided between two distinct, yet not truly separate, agencies, namely the Monarch and the Secretary of State. The Monarch is mainly responsible for foreign, defense, security, and state affairs, while the Secretary of State is responsible for everything else. Portfolios relative to foreign, military, public safety, emergency management, justice, national security, education, elections, and local government affairs are subordinated to the Monarch, and, by law, ministers with any of these portfolios report to the Monarch. On the other hand, all other portfolios are subordinated to the Secretary of State, and the law mandates that ministers with any portfolio not subordinated to the Monarch report to the Secretary of State instead. By law, the Secretary of State is also the head of the Hawaiʻi State Treasury, and the two posts are indivisible and inseparable.

Government of Hawaiʻi
The executive branch consists of the Monarch and those to whom the Monarch delegates power. The Monarch is head of state, as well as the military Commander-in-Chief and chief Diplomat. The Monarch, as required by the Constitution, must "take care that the laws be faithfully executed", and "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution". The Monarch is also the formal head the executive branch of the State government, an organization numbering about XXXX people, including XXXX active-duty military personnel. The XXXX and current Monarch is King Kameāloha I.

The Monarch may sign legislation passed by the Legislature into Law or may veto it, preventing it from becoming Law unless two-thirds of both Houses of the Legislature Vote to override the veto. The Monarch may unilaterally sign Treaties with other States, foreign and domestic; however, signed Treaties are not binding until ratified in the Senate by a two-thirds Majority, and ratified Treaties are not enforceable until enacted into domestic Law by the Legislature. The Monarch may be impeached by a Majority in the House and removed from office by a two-thirds Majority in the Senate for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors". The Monarch may not dissolve the Legislature but does have the Power to call special Elections, to Pardon, or release, criminals convicted of offenses against the State (except in cases of Impeachment), enact Orders-in-Council (e.g., "Executive Orders"), and (by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate) appoint supreme Court justices and Judges of lower Courts, Heads of Executive ministries and those of agencies with ministry-level status. The Monarch also appoints, in and for each County, by and with the Advice and Consent of the legislative assembly thereof, the Sheriff, County-Attorney, and Minister-President of each County.

The Monarch is the fount of all state authority in Hawaiʻi and all levels of government and the branches therof, respectively, act in his name; however, successive Monarchs have, over time, divided the executive Power between the Monarch himself and a Secretary of State, resulting in a framework that is functionally similar to the relationship between a head of state and a head of government in a semi-presidential republic.

The Secretary of State is appointed by the Monarch, by and with the Advice and Consent of both Houses of the Hawaiʻi Legislature, for a Term of four Years, and his successfully serving out his Term depends on his continuously maintaining the Confidence of the Legislature throughout his Tenure. However, while the Secretary of State, by law, serves at the pleasure of the Monarch, in practice the Monarch tends to defer to the Legislature relative to Matters of responsible government.

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Counties
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In each County there is a Minister-President, who is the head of government of that County. Appointed by the King, County Ministers-President, while being the de facto head of the County government, are de jure merely primus inter pares, or "first among equals": The position of Minister-President does not possess any more authority than that which is possessed by the other members of the County cabinet; however, the post of Minister-President has evolved through informal convention and likewise through formal statute into a Hawaiian county-equivalent of prime minister. However, unlike many national prime ministers, the Minister-President of each county is appointed by the King of Hawaiʻi, and by convention the Monarch's choice for Minister-President for any given County is more often than not reflective of the political leanings of the voters at large of that County as represented in the County legislative assembly.

Counties in Hawaiʻi operate under a variant of cabinet government.

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Hawaiʻi Constitution
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Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes
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Hawaiʻi State Guard
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