The proposed divergence falls about fifty years before the Kamehameha dynasty ends, sixty-three years before the Bayonet Constitution, and sixty-nine years before the Committee of Safety overthrows the kingdom. Hawaiian monarchs faced an unusually dangerous combination of disease, accidents, and succession problems. The later constitutional struggle included attempts by rulers to recover powers taken from the Crown under the Bayonet Constitution. After the dynasty ended, monarchs were sometimes selected by a parliamentary vote. The later conflicts therefore involved both limits on royal authority and changes in how monarchs were chosen.
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Dynastic danger and the road to the Bayonet Constitution
The counterfactual begins decades before the Kamehameha line ends, the Bayonet Constitution curtails royal power, and the Committee of Safety overthrows the kingdom.