Prologue : Duty : Washington, DC, April 7, 1910 -- The prescience to draw lines -- Allies : the constitutionalists -- Allies : women and the renaissance of the Ali'i -- The long echo of the civil war : James Blount -- The long echo of the civil war : John Morgan -- The long echo of seventeenth-century Massachusetts : the trial of Liliuokalani -- The principled imperative of the claim : San Francisco -- The lawyer and the argument : Washington, DC -- On hallowed ground : Congress in Hawaii -- On distant ground : Congress in Washington, DC -- Disquieting charade : there is no law for you -- Without counsel in Congress : Washington, DC -- Without counsel in the Grand Salon : the judicial clash Washington, DC, April 7, 1910 -- Epilogue : Outraged agony : the embattle soul of sovereignty.