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The executive department consists of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Comptroller of Public Accounts, Commissioner of the General Land Office, and Attorney General. [2] Texas has a plural executive branch system which limits the power of the Governor.
[35] [34] The executive branches of Texas and North Carolina, for example, maintain a plural executive whereby other elected executive officers can curb the chief executive's actions. The group of North Carolina executive officers, the North Carolina Council of State , wields considerable statutory power when approving the state government's ...
Citizens' guide to the Texas Constitution. Austin: Texas Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. ISBN 978-0-88408-070-1. Hill, John L., ed. (1976). Constitution of the State of Texas. Austin: [Office of the Attorney General of Texas]. Includes the text of the constitution as of November 2, 1976, along with a brief informational ...
This creates, in effect, a "plural executive." [29] New Hampshire has an executive council that performs many of the duties usually performed by governors. [30] The North Carolina Council of State, made up of the state's executive constitutional officers, does not make major executive decisions as in Florida, but does have control over state ...
In the United States, state governments are institutional units exercising functions of government at a level below that of the federal government. Each U.S. state's government holds legislative, executive, and judicial authority over [1] a defined geographic territory.
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
Republican say President Biden's to address the border crisis is an election-year stunt. Democrats worry that it endangers the U.S. asylum process.
Lopez [7] in 1995 held unconstitutional the Gun Free School Zone Act because it exceeded the power of Congress to "regulate commerce...among the several states". Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote, "We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers." For the first time in sixty years the Court ...