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== Constitution ==
{{Main|Politics of the Netherlands Antilles}}
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The [[Constitution of the Netherlands Antilles]] was proclaimed on 29 March 1955 by Order-in-Council for the Kingdom. Together with the [[Islands Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles]] it formed the constitutional basis for the Netherlands Antilles. Because the Constitution depended on the Islands Regulation, which gave fairly large autonomy to the different island territories, and the Islands Regulation was older than the Constitution, many scholars describe the Netherlands Antilles as a federal arrangement.<ref>Borman 2005:56</ref>

The head of state was the monarch of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, who was represented in the Netherlands Antilles by a governor. The governor and the council of ministers, chaired by a prime minister, formed the government. The Netherlands Antilles had a [[unicameral]] legislature called the [[Parliament of the Netherlands Antilles]]. Its 22 members were fixed in number for the islands making up the Netherlands Antilles: fourteen for Curaçao, three each for Sint Maarten and Bonaire, and one each for Saba and Sint Eustatius.

The Netherlands Antilles were not part of the [[European Union]], but instead listed as [[overseas countries and territories]] (OCTs). This status was kept for all the islands after dissolution, and will be kept until at least 2015.{{Update after|2019|7|26}}