Question: What was the position of the person who served as a minister to the country that colonized Nigeria and who negotiated a treaty in 1795?

the federal supreme court has established that treaties are subject to constitutional review and enjoy the same hierarchical position as ordinary legislation (leis ordinárias, or "ordinary laws", in portuguese). a more recent ruling by the supreme court in 2008 has altered that scheme somewhat, by stating that treaties containing human rights provisions enjoy a status above that of ordinary legislation, though they remain beneath the constitution itself. additionally, as per the 45th amendment to the constitution, human rights treaties which are approved by congress by means of a special procedure enjoy the same hierarchical position as a constitutional amendment. the hierarchical position of treaties in relation to domestic legislation is of relevance to the discussion on whether (and how) the latter can abrogate the former and vice versa. <SEP> In 1914, the area was formally united as the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. Administratively, Nigeria remained divided into the Northern and Southern Provinces and Lagos Colony. On 27 October 1958 Britain agreed that Nigeria would become an independent state on 1 October 1960. Western education and the development of a modern economy proceeded more rapidly in the south than in the north, with consequences felt in Nigeria's political life ever since. Following World War II, in response to the growth of Nigerian nationalism and demands for independence, successive constitutions legislated by the British Government moved Nigeria toward self - government on a representative and increasingly federal basis. On 1 October 1954, the colony became the autonomous Federation of Nigeria. By the middle of the 20th century, the great wave for independence was sweeping across Africa. <SEP> Jay Treaty Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America First page of the Jay Treaty Context To relieve post-war tension between Britain and the United States Signed November 19, 1794 (1794 - 11 - 19) Location London Effective February 29, 1796 (1796 - 02 - 29) Negotiators William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville John Jay Signatories Kingdom of Great Britain United States Jay's Treaty at Wikisource <SEP> He directed U.S. foreign policy for much of the 1780s and was an important leader of the Federalist Party after the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. John Jay (December 23, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, Founding Father of the United States, negotiator and signatory of the Treaty of Paris of 1783, second Governor of New York, and the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–1795). <SEP> the dutch east india company had founded the cape colony on the southern tip of africa in 1652 as a way station for its ships travelling to and from its colonies in the east indies. britain formally acquired the colony, and its large afrikaner (or boer) population in 1806, having occupied it in 1795 to prevent its falling into french hands, following the invasion of the netherlands by france. british immigration began to rise after 1820, and pushed thousands of boers, resentful of british rule, northwards to found their own—mostly short-lived—independent republics, during the great trek of the late 1830s and early 1840s. in the process the voortrekkers clashed repeatedly with the british, who had their own agenda with regard to colonial expansion in south africa and with several african polities, including those of the sotho and the zulu nations. eventually the boers established two republics which had a longer lifespan: the south african republic or transvaal republic (1852–77; 1881–1902) and the orange free state (1854–1902). in 1902 britain occupied both republics, concluding a treaty with the two boer republics following the second boer war (1899–1902).