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abolished the office of Kuhina Nui and effectively merged the powers into his own office as King. The office was never revived after that, with the
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had wished for her to rule the kingdom alongside him. Whether this was really the will of
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state which tolerated no other religion. For the first few years of
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one set in place in 1852. In 1864, the King issued a new constitution that was much less liberal than the
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being an island). This was an ancient office from the very dawn of
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