Compare And Contrast Texas And Us Governor

The United States President is considered one of the most influential positions in the world. Similarly, to U.S President, governors also play an important role in functioning of the nation. In Texas, the governor not only represents the 2nd largest state in the United States, but as well as the people that reside in Texas and performs a major responsibility as acting as people’s voice in office. The Texas Governor and the U.S president both have important responsibilities to ensure citizens well-being, but in comparison, each one has their limitations and conflicts. In this assignment, views from both sides, the Texas governor and the United States President, will be taken into account and be analyzed for their characteristics. For each one

In order to serve as a U.S president, an individual must fall under the following conditions, (1) he or she must be natural born citizen, (2) have thirty-five years or older, and (3) must have lived in the United States for at least fourteen years. On the other hand, Texas Governor’s qualifications are similar, (1) the individual must be at least thirty-five years, (2) be a U.S citizen, and lastly, (3) have lived in Texas five years before his or her election. While both positions constitute a term of four-years, the Texas Governor term length was originally two-years until 1866, when Texas was first being re-introduced into the United

Similar to the president, laws and policies have to be approved by the highest appointed official in order to determine its outcome. The Governor, in which carefully decides to either approve or veto such bill in the last step of the approval process. However, the Texas Governor has limitation in policy approval. In Texas political history, the outline of the government was meant to prevent constant changes based on ambiguity, thus much more steps are required to change or add a bill to the pre-existing laws, as compared to the difficulty the President has. Ultimately, many work arounds have been used to add or remove a bill due to needed additions required, for example, in Texas there has been over 673 proposed amendments, with 491 being approved, unlike The United States Constitution, which has only 27 amendments. A major evaluation of the Texas constitution is needed. The current layout of the Texas Constitution requires frequent changes and additions that only slow down the justice system and consequently, effecting the Texas Governor. If the Governor were to change such specifications in the Constitution, reducing the strict preciseness of it, it can expand each clause, increasing productivity in