Politics of Hawaii

The Hawaii state government is composed of a bicameral system, with the Hawaii Senate and the Hawaii House of Representatives making up the upper and lower houses. |Shan Tsutsui Lt. Governor of Hawaii (Democrat) ==Federal representation==

Hawaii is currently represented in the Senate by Democrats Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz. In the House, Democrats Ed Case (HI-1) and Jill Tokuda (HI-2) represent the state. File:Brian Schatz, official portrait, 113th Congress 2.jpg|Brian SchatzU.S. Senior Senator(Democrat) File:Mazie Hirono, official portrait, 113th Congress.jpg|Mazie HironoU.S. Junior Senator(Democrat) File:Ed Case, official portrait, 117th Congress.jpg |Ed CaseU.S. Representative HI-01(Democrat) File:Rep. Jill Tokuda official photo, 118th Congress (1).jpg|Jill TokudaU.S. Representative HI-02(Democrat) Hawaii is part of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii in the federal judiciary. The district's cases are appealed to the San Francisco-based United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. ==County government==

Each of Hawaii's four counties is governed by a mayor as follows: City and County of Honolulu - Rick Blangiardi County of Hawaii - Mitch Roth County of Maui - Richard Bissen County of Kauai - Derek Kawakami ==Hawaiian nationalism==

Hawaiian nationalism is focused on producing a national identity, distinct from that of the United States. Most Hawaiian nationalists have argued that the Hawaiian race and their descendants should govern the islands as a constitutional monarchy. Hawaiian nationalism is not limited to Native Hawaiians but has included other groups including whites and Asians; Walter M. Gibson was an early defender of Hawaiian sovereignty. A green, red and yellow flag, the Kanaka Maoli flag was designed around the 1990s and has gained popularity, when it was reported (and widely believed) to be an "original" flag of the Kingdom of Hawaii destroyed by the British. Dr. Sai stated that it was in fact a modern design, part of a "reawakening" of awareness of the Kingdom's history; he added that the present-day Hawaiian state flag was also the Kingdom's flag (in the 19th century), designed by King Kamehameha I. ==See also==