Role Of Lieutenant Governor In Texas Government

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LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Rahmadia Putri

The most powerful members of Texas legislature is Lieutenant Governor of often know as President of the Senate even lieutenant governor of Texas is more powerful than the governor. Lieutenant Governor is an executive branch position that are elected separately of the governor. Ironically, the executive branch responsibility almost there in no existences except in the case of the death of governor, surrender, removal from the office or absence from the state. The responsibility is not transparent yet for the people because even in the governor the responsibility is not existences.

(McNeely, 2010) During the reconstruction period after the civil war, Texas had to brave out the absorption of power in the governor: …show more content…

The Lieutenant governor is not like the vice president of United States other they both are presiding office of the senate. Lieutenant Governor plays an active role as President of the Senate (unlike the US Vice President) and also chairs a number of important government boards. In fact Lieutenant Governor has more power in the state than the vice president do in US. Lieutenant governor is like what vice president do, but the level is different. Their task are they don’t need to do attends function, they need to visit the people to clear things up while it will bring risk or impolitic, they need to attend the funerals of opposition party, network for future bid, peddles influences and assume the governorship if the current governor dies or …show more content…

It’s enough for Lieutenant Governor to grant the office more power, they need that power in order to control the state. Texas is very much against big government and which is can reflected reflect in the power given to Texas Governor or show how big and enough power that they has. In the system the governor has to share their power of executive with a group of other officials who are not elected or who are not obey the governor, so their power is not big as people know . This means that any major changes that the governor tries to make have to be approved by the rest of the executive. Those people are not overturn laws, but they can give a great influence on how the laws are carried out by the ways in which they run their parts of the executive branch. I think that the power of the Lieutenant governor are still can be controlled because they also have their duties that need to be done. The power is use for the important of the states, whether some of them are not use the power in right

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