Trinidad and Tobago's constitution took effect in 1976, transforming the country from a constitutional monarchy into a republic in which an indirectly elected President replaced the monarch as head of state, and it lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. It establishes a parliamentary democracy modeled on the United Kingdom system, with the President chosen by an electoral college of Parliament members for five-year terms, a Prime Minister who leads the government while remaining answerable to the House of Representatives, and a bicameral Parliament comprising a 31-member Senate and a House of Representatives that grew from 36 to 41 seats in a 2005 expansion.
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1. Central Intelligence Agency: Trinidad and Tobago, The World Factbook (factbook.json archive copy)
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previous 1962; latest 1976
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Under the 1976 republican Constitution, the monarch was replaced as head of state by a President chosen by an electoral college.
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WikipediaIn Group: Constitutions of OAS Member States, lead names 32 OAS member states including Trinidad and TobagoView the Source Caribbean Community (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIn Group: Constitutions of CARICOM Member States, lead names 15 CARICOM full member states including Trinidad and TobagoView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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