...recent non-white cabinet member appointment; is the appointee best person for the job or just a token? Ohio Governor’s office is now considered diverse in recent non-white cabinet member appointment. Previous administrations were not known for having racially diverse cabinets. Although they were diverse as it pertains to gender they have been all-white since 1962. The recent election of the new Governor of Ohio has drawn intense speculation and criticism by local minority lawmakers and Democrats. Previous administrations in Ohio have been known for having diverse cabinet members. There has not been an all-white cabinet since 1962. There were those that believed the current administration would have an all- white cabinet simply because it is now Republican. One would ask was this appointment made to make quota. Was the appointment made to right the wrongs of the past? In other words, would this be considered to be indicative to the Affirmative Action Initiatives? Although the recent appointee, who is African American and his qualifications are exemplary does it dispute the fact that the Governor made this appointment to meet diversity quotas? The cabinet was considered diverse as far as gender diversity is concerned but it was not as it pertains to racial diversity. Governor Kasich is Ohio’s first governor since 1962 to have an entire cabinet without any racial diversity. The Governor up to this point still had...
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...The governor of Texas is in general the most known state official and usually at the center of state government and politics. As such an important part of the Texas government, the governor has many powers, both formal and informal. The formal powers of the governor are powers inherent to the person who holds the office. These powers include: the power to veto, appointing powers, budgeting powers, and the power to reorganize state agencies and departments. These powers are inherent to the person who holds the position. The power to veto is the governor’s ability to say no to legislation that they disagree with or are opposed to. This power is the most important power that the governor wields that can affect the lawmaking process. There are also several types of vetoes, however the Texas government only has two: the line-item veto, or partial veto, is the ability to nullify or cancel certain parts of a bill; and the package veto, which allows the governor to veto the entire bill. The veto is a very important power of the governor because it allows the governor to have a say in the lawmaking process and because vetoes are rarely overridden, the bill will likely not go through. Besides vetoing power, the governor also has appointing powers. In order for a governor to have influence over legislation, they need to have a say in who is administering the laws. Most appointments are state officials, such as state board members, commissioners, and council members...
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...under the rule of the British King and result to that was most states in America had fragile executives so they gave the power to the legislative branch. It’s embedded in the history of Texas where the residents lack faith in the Texas government. But as the years went by, the state grew the power of the governor and gave him/her the extent to do more, but that still didn’t change the fact that they weren’t up to date on “modern Texas” (156-157) Since the early statehood of Texas, it has been governed by a numerous amount of male figures. The state has had around forty-eight governors since the beginning of Texas government, like James Pinkney Henderson as the first governor to the present time of modern Texas, Gregory W. Abbott....
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...issued a Presidential order removing Mizoram Governor Kamla Beniwal with barely four months left of her tenure. Ms. Beniwal, who had crossed swords with PM Narendra Modi as Gujarat governor, was only recently transferred to Mizoram. According to Ms. Beniwal, she was transferred after a nudge from home secretary Anil Goswami to quit did not elicit the desired response from her. The Government has stated that the decision to advise the Presdient to sack Ms. Beniwal was taken after it came to light that she had misused the governor's office (in Gujarat) to make several unauthorized air travels, including to her home state of Rajasthan, at the expense of the state exchequer. Citing Gujarat Raj Bhavan records, the Government states that Ms. Beniwal flew out of Gujarat 63 times using the state aircraft between 2011 and 2014, with as many as 53 of these trips being to her home city of Jaipur. The Government also states that as chancellor of universities, she had allegedly started taking keen interest in appointment of vicechancellors. Ms. Beniwal denies these allegations and states that the sole motivation for her removal was political vendetta. She asks that the Court examine the decision to remove her through the prism of the uneasy relationship that she shared as Gujarat governor with Mr. Modi when he was chief minister. She states she had run-ins with Mr. Modi’s government over the appointment of the Lokayukta and other issues such as appointment of vice-chancellors and giving her assent...
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...In this paper, I will be discussing Judicial selection process of two states. A couple of definitions that will be talked about is partisan election, nonpartisan elections, and assisted appointment method. Partisan election is where candidates are listed on a ballot with indication of their political party. Nonpartisan election are judges that are elected by the people and the candidate are listed on the ballot without a label. Assisted appointment method (Missouri Plan) is where the governor appoints state judges with help from the commission or board. The judicial selection of state I chose is Georgia because this is my home state. It occurs primarily through nonpartisan based on his or her own merits than as a member of a...
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...Introduction: A governor (from French gouverneur) is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constituent state. In countries the heads of the constitutive states, provinces, communities and regions may be titled Governor, although this is less common in parliamentary systems such as in some European nations and many of their former colonies, which use titles such as President of the Regional Council in France and Minister-President in Germany, where in some states there are governorates (German: Regierungsbezirke) as sub-state administrative regions. Other countries using different titles for sub-national units include Spain and Switzerland. The title also lies, historically, to executive officials acting as representatives of a chartered company which has been granted exercise of sovereignty in a colonial area, such as the British HEIC or the Dutch VOC. These companies operate as a major state within a state with its own armed forces. There can also be non-political governors: high ranking officials in private or similar governance such as commercial and non-profit management, styled governor(s), who simply govern an institution, such as a corporation or a bank. For example, in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries there are prison governors ("warden" in the United States), school governors and bank...
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...shall have a Board of Governors, an Executive Board, a Managing Director, and a staff, and a Council if the Board of Governors decides, by an eighty-five percent majority of the total voting power, that the provisions of Schedule D shall be applied. Section 2. Board of Governors * (a) All powers under this Agreement not conferred directly on the Board of Governors, the Executive Board, or the Managing Director shall be vested in the Board of Governors. The Board of Governors shall consist of one Governor and one Alternate appointed by each member in such manner as it may determine. Each Governor and each Alternate shall serve until a new appointment is made. No Alternate may vote except in the absence of his principal. The Board of Governors shall select one of the Governors as Chairman. * (b) The Board of Governors may delegate to the Executive Board authority to exercise any powers of the Board of Governors, except the powers conferred directly by this Agreement on the Board of Governors. * (c) The Board of Governors shall hold such meetings as may be provided for by the Board of Governors or called by the Executive Board. Meetings of the Board of Governors shall be called whenever requested by fifteen members or by members having one-quarter of the total voting power. * (d) A quorum for any meeting of the Board of Governors shall be a majority of the Governors having not less than two-thirds of the total voting power. * (e) Each Governor shall be entitled...
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...The Governor and the Executive Branch 1. What are the formal requirements for a governor? Age- 30 Citizenship- US Texas Resident- 5 years 2. What are the informal requirements? W.A.S.P. –White Anglo Saxon Protestant Male Middle aged (30) years Lawyer/ Businessmen 3. Terms of office 4 years 4. Maximum length that the governor may serve No term limit 5. If the governor does not complete his (or her) term of office, who becomes governor? Lt. Gov. 6. How many women have served as governor of Texas? 2 7. Who is the only woman who has served as based strictly on her own ability? Ann Richards 8. How does the governor’s salary and housing arrangements compare with the president? | Governors | President | Salaries | 150,000 | 400,000 | Housing | Governor’s Mansion | White House | 9. When does a bill become law? After being signed by the governor 10. Distinguish between the types of vetoes that a governor may exercise? The Veto = Veto the entire bill (Line) Item Veto = Mark out only certain parts on the bill Gubernatorial Veto can be overridden [by a 2/3rds vote] 11. What veto power does the governor not have? No “Pocket Veto”- governor ignores legislation and it becomes law 12. Can the governor effectively influence legislation with the mere threat of a veto? Explain. Yes, because both the veto and the item veto are tools that simply kill bills or programs. However, by threatening to use these formal powers...
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...organizations, and is typically staffed with individuals elected or appointed to specific positions. There are four main departments within the federal bureaucratic system. These include cabinet departments, independent executive agencies, independent regulatory agencies, and government organizations, such as the United States Postal Service and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, also known as the FDIC. In order to gain employment in the federal bureaucratic system, there are two routes a candidate can utilize in order to gain employment. The first autocratic route is political appointment. In order to gain employment through political appointment, a candidate must be selected for top government positions by the President of the United States. The second bureaucratic route is becoming a civil servant. Civil servants make up the majority of the bureaucracy because it does not involve appointment, only passing a series of hiring processes. In order to become a civil servant, an applicant must complete an application for employment. After an application is made, an applicant must submit to a federal background check. Applicants are then chosen for civil service positions based on their experience and the status of their background check. Once an individual is part of the federal bureaucracy, promotions are based on merit. Merit based promotions replaced the spoils system for promoting employees after the Pendleton Act was passed in 1883. It gave employees the opportunity...
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...The British considered Parliament to be superior to all of the colonial assemblies. This was evident because Parliament created each colony, issued their charters, and in most of the cases created their assemblies. Parliament had the right to dismiss any colonial legislation, which means they were clearly superior to the colonial legislatures. England sent Royal Governors to the colonies to represent the interests of Parliament and the Crown to the colonial legislatures. These governors could also dismiss colonial legislation. For many years, Parliament had done very little to manage the colonial legislatures, giving them the sense that they were sovereign. Colonists saw the empire as a type of commonwealth, with colonial legislatures that...
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...Constitution of the State of Illinois ARTICLE I BILL OF RIGHTS SECTION 1. INHERENT AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS All men are by nature free and independent and have certain inherent and inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To secure these rights and the protection of property, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. (Source: Illinois Constitution.) SECTION 2. DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law nor be denied the equal protection of the laws. (Source: Illinois Constitution.) SECTION 3. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination, shall forever be guaranteed, and no person shall be denied any civil or political right, privilege or capacity, on account of his religious opinions; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be construed to dispense with oaths or affirmations, excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of the State. No person shall be required to attend or support any ministry or place of worship against his consent, nor shall any preference be given by law to any religious denomination or mode of worship. (Source: Illinois Constitution.) SECTION 4. FREEDOM OF SPEECH All persons may speak, write and publish freely, being ...
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...the centrally controlled, Nigeria Police Force. Also, in these same past few weeks, it seems as if a new low has been reached in terms of insecurity which made people to start calling for a State-controlled Police. Even with the prevailing insecurities, the Governors of the States in the North stated unanimously in a recent gathering that they are not ready for State Police. This is in-spite of the initial agreement reached with Southern Governors to ask for State Police which in essence means a decentralization of policing, an outright removal of policing from the exclusive list of jurisdiction of Federal Government. Prior to this scenario, the Governors, in their respective States can be described as having firm and absolute grips of instrument of coercion such as even the Nigeria Police. Granting them further powers to establish State Police, will certainly go to confer on these Governors an awesome power which is comparable only to that emanating from the ladies of their manors. With a State Police established by the Governors, who is that private citizen, politician or a political party that would dare challenge their authorities? That is, taking cognizance of the leverage or influence the Governors presently wield even without what they argue is their lack of absolute control of the Police commands in their respective States. In such a scenario, the greater majority of Nigerians would surely be the worse for it. However, the Federal Government and other...
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...being selected. In the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court judges are required to have a license to practice law and must have been practicing law for ten years. Another requirement is that a judge needs to be a legal resident of the United States and a resident of Texas before being selected. In other states age requirements are not mandatory, but in Texas the age requirement is thirty-five years of age. District judges are required to have a licensed to practice law in Texas for at least four years and be a resident of the judicial district for two years, they must also be a resident of the State of Texas. In District Courts judges are to compete in partisan elections as well, the same for the Supreme Court if a vacancy occurs the Governor of Texas will appoint a replacement for the remainder of the term, again this is needed to be approved by the Senate. The requirement's to serve as a judge is to be a citizen of the United States. The nominee must have held a judicial district for two years, they also must have been licensed to practice law. The age requirement is different from the Supreme Court rather requiring the age of thirty-five the age for District Courts is twenty-five to the age of seventy-four. The election process for judges in the Constitutional County Courts do not require to have a license to practice law, the only qualification that is needed is that the nominee is well informed...
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...Entr 301 Fangyi Liu Governor Jack Markell During this weekend I have interviewed Governor Jack Markell, I was trying to interview Professor Mark Bambach, but I couldn’t get an appointment with him, so I have no choice to go for my back up plan: Mr. Governor. Governor Markell grew up in Newark, Delaware, and graduated from Newark High School and Brown University major in economics and development studies and received an MBA degree from the University of Chicago. After he graduated from university of Chicago, he had thousands of jobs, but three of the most unforgettable experience he had were served as Vice President for Corporate Development at Nextel, this job includes helping to lead the movement to wireless technology, worked as a senior management position at Comcast, and worked as a banker at First Chicago Corporation. Jobs seeking are not easy, remember, you are the one who need it. So show the employers and let them believe that you are qualifying for it. Attitudes are important, according to Markell. And the piece of advice he would like to share with us “jobs are not hard to find, especially for UD students, all you have to do is show them how much you want it”. As an entrepreneur, Markell led the development of several educational efforts in personal financial management, known as "the Financial Literacy initiatives." He created the Delaware Money School, which offers free classes to Delawareans throughout the year on topics such as saving for college and retirement...
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...policy, banking supervision, and financial services. For example, one of the monetary policies that it serves to set is the interest rates in banks in the United States of America. The bank also provides assistance to any banks that find themselves running out of money, etc. The Board of Governors is a group of of people that manage the Federal Reserve and its business. The board consists of the seven governors, appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Governors serve 14-year, staggered terms to ensure stability and continuity over time. The chairman and vice-chairman are appointed to four-year terms and may be reappointed subject to term limitations. Among the responsibilities of the Board of Governors are to guide monetary policy action, to analyze domestic and international economic and financial conditions, and to lead committees that study current issues, such as consumer banking laws and electronic commerce. The Board also exercises broad supervisory control over the financial services industry, administers certain consumer protection regulations, and oversees the nation's payments system. The Board oversees the activities of Reserve Banks, approving the appointments of their presidents and some members of their boards of directors. The Board sets reserve requirements for depository institutions and approves changes in discount rates recommended by Reserve Banks. The Board's most important responsibility is participating in the Federal Open Market Committee...
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