Essay On Texas Legislative Branch

The Texas legislative branch is the most powerful branch in the Texas government. The demographics of the branch poorly represent the make of the Texas’ population. The state of Texas has approximately a fifty-fifty split between men and women. The Texas House of Representatives are split with a twenty-one percent to seventy-nine percent men representation. The senate differs slightly in that women make-up twenty-three percent of the senate and men make-up seventy-seven percent of the senate. Furthermore, the Texas population is about fourth-seven percent Democrat and fifty-three percent Republican. However, due to gerrymandering, and discouraged voters and nonvoters the actual legislative representation of the legislative branch is disproportionately

Some positions are the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, etc. The positions largely consist of older individuals in the age range of 45-80. They are mostly white, and men. They are generally wealthier individuals with multiple income sources likely due to the low wages paid by the legislative branch. Many of them have a background in business, and law firms. Also, the members are highly educated nearly all of them have college

Since, most of the senate and house come from and are funded by people with those interests. Women’s issues like reproductive health/rights, income inequality, domestic violence are not properly represented in the senate and house. Minority issues such as racial justice, LGBTQ rights, income inequality, police brutality, housing, etc. are also underrepresented due to them having little relevance to the make-up of the Texas representatives. People who vote and people with similar make-up to the Texas representatives are more likely to get laws and policies they prefer. Certain candidates will get elected rather than other candidates due to them having more education, better campaign resources provided, money, benefactors, wealth, etc. Also there is also intentionally improper districting which leads to improper representation, and huge advantages to certain