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Texas Government Course Reflection

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Before this course I did not know much about Texas’s government and how it operated. I had made some connections from my prior knowledge, from taking another government course. These connections that I made was the types of elections held and polls used in each election. This course has allowed me to better understand how the Texas government operates, which I didn’t know before. I now know that the governor of Texas is Greg Abbott, we have a bicameral legislature, and there are 31 members in the senate and 150 in the house.
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Over the many constitutions that Texas has ratified, the number of terms limited to the state governor only increased as time went on. Currently, Texas has no limits on the amount of terms a state governor can serve; Rick Perry actually holds the record for longest running governor totalling four terms until he finally decided not to run again. According to the editorial titled, “Texas Governor Needs Term Limits” (My SanAntonio, 19 September 2010) a similar term limit, like the one imposed on the president of the United States, is needed for Texas governors. The editorial includes examples of terms from the beginning of the government and up until now. In contrast, the editorial titled, “Why Texas Doesn’t Need Term Limits” (The Dallas Morning

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