Edited sentence: As the term "sovereignty" suggests, what was at stake in 1893 was political power over the government and hence over the Government Lands and the Crown Lands (which had come under control of a government commission in 1865).Government and back to the State of Hawaii.If Hawaiians had any rights or powers regarding Government land, they had only the political right and power to participate in controlling the Government.Legally, the land belonging to the Hawaiian Government in 1898 has passed to the U.Most ethnic Hawaiians then had no power to lose; they were a minority in Hawaii and most of them could not even vote.Private individuals had no powers, rights or privileges to use government land without Government authorization or to decide how it was to be used.The Hawaiian Kingdom Government lands in 1893 were controlled ultimately by the Legislature