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040			_cNDC
086			_a00263-XI
100			_aHunttey, Earl
245			_aUnion of East Caribbean states: thoughts on a form
260			_bVoice Publishing Company
260			_aCastries
260			_c1990
270			_dSaint Lucia
300			_a33 p.
520			_aPresents two models of a form of political union for the islands states of the Eastern Caribbean in addition to a brief overview on classical forms of political union and their relevance to the Eastern Caribbean. In the collective presidency model, each Head of Government automatically becomes a member of the Federal Executive Council which would be a collective presidency. The second model comprises a President, elected by the Lower House of the Regional Assembly, with Heads of Government forming a Council of Governor. The author proposes these models against what he terms "these special circumstances" where the driving force to integration has been a collective decision-making system, the newly achieved independence of states concerned and the traditional insularity among the islands.
556			_aGeneral
650			_aPOLITICAL SYSTEMS
650			_aPOLITICAL POWER
650			_aREGIONAL GOVERNMENT
650			_aCONSTITUTIONS
650			_aCARIBBEAN
942			_h04.03.01 _2NDC _cGL
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