ABSTRACT
The State of Antigua and Barbuda comprehends those two territories because the imperial Power so decided about 130 years ago. In July 2000, a two person independent review team was appointed by the Commonwealth Secretary General in London to review the operation of the arrangements between the Antigua and Barbuda Government and the local council on Barbuda. This review had been agreed at the Antigua constitutional conference held at Lancaster House, London, in December 1980. In all the Caribbean islands throughout the 19th century there was a great gulf fixed between the legislature and the executive; and it was pressure from the local council after emancipation that led to the establishment of an Executive Committee of the Privy Council in Barbados and Jamaica. It is in other respects a traditional monarchical type of instrument very much like the constitutions of Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas, but with the under mentioned variations, some of which are quite substantial.
