This will be a seminal book in Aotearoa New Zealand political and Mori scholarship. OSullivan moves beyond the weirdness of the Treaty principles and interminable originalist arguments. Instead, he provides a language grounded in republican ideals of non-domination and equality to debate the political morality of our current institutional arrangements. He thinks through the practical implications of rangatiratanga, mana motuhake, and community control amongst iwi, hap and other Mori political authorities offering a new way of thinking about how we ought to live together, given the legacies of colonisation. -- Lindsey Te Ata o T MacDonald, University of Canterbury, Te Whare Wnanga o Waitaha I admire OSullivans work and think it is significant and timely. He explores the potential of deliberative democracy in a commonwealth that draws upon legacies from te ao Mori, the indigenous world as well as cosmopolitan modernity in a way that respects his own critique of a simple Mori/Pkeh or kwanatanga/rangatiratanga binary. This holds great promise. As OSullivan argues throughout, the challenge is for deliberation and decision-making to be equally shared, rather than unilaterally imposed, as has too often been the case from the beginning. -- Dame Anne Salmond, Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
