Native Hawaiians thinking independence should keep this situation in mind.  Power WILL corrupt.   Corruption will creep into every crevice of government.  It's easy to write a constitutional document (below average law students could do that). It's another thing to frame a perpetual (corporate) government.  The Founding Fathers did so.  It isn't perfect.  But what other nation in history has ever had this ability to naturally correct itself short of coups and assassinations?  While Native Hawaiians draft constitutions that copy the intellect and social foresight of the USA's original 18th century document, like every other constitutional republics in this world, where is the "pro forma" of applied economics (GNP), and too, measures for internal security (assurances against govt corruption).  Founding Fathers had theirs in their time.  Where's ours now?