...From Governor To Dictator Power is a figurative quality associated with wealth, worth and control. Since 1974, a well paid salary and a four-year term has been given to the Texas Governor, who is seen as a very powerful person but in reality is a weak one. A big argument in Texas is if the Governor should have more power over Texas, but this would only cause the state unnecessary problems. Powers of The Governor The Governor of Texas has both informal and formal powers that cover a variety of things. A Texas governor is said to be someone who must use the power of persuasion, media and personality in order to effectively govern the state. People believe that the Texas Governor is a very strong official, but compared to other governors around the nation and the importance of the people working with him, it’s truly a weak one. The 1876 Constitution created a plural executive structure in which the governor is but one of several elected officials who share power in the executive branch, limiting the power of the governor. All executive officers are elected independently except for the Secretary of State, making them directly answerable to the public not the Governor. If the Governor can’t hire or fire his subordinates, then he has less or no control over them. Power is highly decentralized and spread out to several different officials, which prevents the governor from having too much power. For instance the lieutenant governor, who heads the Senate and appoints its committees...
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...to the state that the federal government has no authority over those matters at all. 1 THE ROLES OF STATE GOVERNMENT State government practices the similar system to the federal government. Consists of three bodies, each of them carries different functions and roles towards implementing the state’s policies and serving the people. For example, the executive components of state of Sarawak consists of TYT (Tuan Yang Terutama) or also known as the Governor of Sarawak as the head of state. The role of the Governor is similar to the states that have Sultans. It is mainly ceremonial. The governor has the power to appoint the chief minister and to give consent to dissolve the state legislature. Just like any other ruler of the states, the governor also gives assent or approval to every legislation passed by the state legislature. Below is the list of Sarawak’s Governors since 1963-present. 1. Tun Datuk Abang Haji Openg Bin Abang Sapiee (1963-1969) 2. Tun Datuk Patinggi Tuanku Haji Bujang Bin Tuanku Osman (1969-1977) 3. Tun Datuk...
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...Appointment of Governors: Implication for Federalism The very fundamental structure of Federalism is based upon the pillars of division of power between the Centre and the States. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar most aptly weaved the concept of federalism by stating that the basic principle of federalism is that the legislative and executive authority is partitioned between the Centre and the State not by any law to be made by the Centre but by the Constitution itself. The States in our constitution are in no way dependant on the centre for their legislative authority. The Centre and the State are co-equal in this matter. It needs to be specified that “only the spirit of ‘cooperative federalism’ can preserve the fine balance between the Union and the States and promote the good of the people and not an attitude of dominance or superiority. Under our constitutional system, no single entity can proclaim superiority. Sovereignty does not lie in any one institution or any one wing of the government. The power of governance is distributed in several organs and institutions, a sine quo non for good governance.”1 However scholars like Gledhill and Jennings held that federalism in India is a cover designed to conceal its Unitarianism: “India has only a facade of federalism without the substance of federalism”.2 It is the role of the governors as the central agent that tilts the federal balance in favour of the Union, thus providing validity to these assertions. The office of the Governor plays the crucial...
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...core functions and the provision of effective and efficient support system. It is also meant to maximize co-ordination at the Deputy Governors management level to ensure that workflow is not hindered considering the leverage of some processes when the Bank is fully automated. A major plank of the restructuring and reengineering exercise will be the automation of most of the Bank’s processes using the latest state of the art technology to enhance the Bank’s performance in the ardous task of managing the nation’s economy The new structure ensures that more than two Deputy Governors are involved in the conduct of the core functions of the Bank, as well as the compatibility of functions and the strategic direction for the Bank. The various functions were grouped as follows: n Deliver services to customers (Operations) n Supervise the financial system and monitor implementation of policy (Financial Services and Surveillance) n Provide support in administering the organization (Corporate Services) n To provide framework for the organization and assure its future. (Policy) The new structure is made up of the following: - Office of the Governor, Chief Joseph Sanusi; Deputy Governor, Corporate Services, Mr. Oluwole Oduyemi; Deputy Governor, Financial Services Surveillance, Dr.Shamsuddeen Usman; Deputy Governor, Policy, Mr. Ernest Ebi and Deputy Governor, Operations, Alh Mahey Rasheed Five...
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...development; and * to further enhance the public confidence in Nepal's entire banking and financial system. The Bank is eminently aware that, for the achievement of the above objectives in the present dynamic environment, sustained progress and continued reform of the financial sector is of utmost importance. Continuously aware of this great responsibility, NRB is seriously pursuing various policies, strategies and actions, all of which are conveyed in the annual report on monetary policy. Vision To become “ A modern, dynamic, credible and effective Central Bank” Mission To maintain macro-economic stability through sound and effective monetary, foreign exchange and financial sector policies. NRB Governors over the years S.N. | Name of Governor | Term of office | 1. | Mr. Himalaya Shumsher J.B. Rana | April 26, 1956 – February 7, 1961 | 2. | Mr. Laxmi Nath Gautam |...
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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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...Short Answer 1) Was Sid McMath a progressive? Explain. Sidney McMath’s time as governor could be described as progressive since it did not fit with conservative or Dixicrat views. When McMath took office in 1948after beating Laney and the two were dramatically different politically. McMath broke protocol by putting blacks into board and commissions that they had not been allowed to serve on before. He worked hard to make thing equal with school funding. He removed the poll tax along with raising the minimum wage. He made great improvements during his one term as governor, but was not supported by the conservative business community. 2) Discuss the political career of Winthrop Rockefeller. Winthrop Rockefeller was first appointed in 1954 as director of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. After his fall out with Faubus and the Little Rock crisis Rockefeller decided to begin building his campaign for governor. His first run in 1964 was unsuccessful, but he was able to secure the governor seat in 1966 and held it for two terms. Rockefeller was able to gain large support from the black voters after the Voting Right Act of 1965. The Freedom of Information Act passed during his time is office was a large success that we still benefit from today. 3) Discuss how Pryor and Bumpers changed Arkansas government? Dale Bumpers and David Pryor were progressive and made great strides in moving Arkansas forward during the 1960s and 70s. Bumpers was able to...
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...robin blackburn THE SUBPRIME CRISIS I n the summer of 2007 many leading banks in the us and Europe were hit by a collapse in the value of mortgage-backed securities which they had themselves been responsible for packaging.* To the surprise of many, the poisonous securities turned out to constitute a major portion of their ultimate asset base. The defaults fostered a credit crunch as all financial institutions hoarded cash and required ever widening premiums before lending to one another. The Wall Street investment banks and brokerages haemorrhaged $175 billion of capital in the period July 2007 to March 2008, and Bear Stearns, the fifth largest, was ‘rescued’ in March, at a fire-sale price, by JP Morgan Chase with the help of $29 billion of guarantees from the Federal Reserve. Many of the rest only survived by selling huge chunks of preferred stock, with guaranteed premium rates of return, to a string of ‘sovereign funds’, owned by the governments of Abu Dhabi, Singapore, South Korea and China, among others. By the end of January 2008, $75 billion of new capital had been injected into the banks, but it was not enough. In the uk the sharply rising cost of liquidity destroyed the business model of a large mortgage house, leading to the first bank run in the uk for 150 years and obliging the British Chancellor first to extend nearly £60 billion in loans and guarantees to its depositors and then to take the concern, Northern Rock, into public ownership. In late January Société...
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...The American Dream Assignment 1: Text 2 interprets the American dream as something every man or woman can achieve if they have the right attitude. “Everyone is the architect of his own fortune” is a common used speech of many immigrants in America. According to this belief everything is possible to archive if you just work hard enough. In text 2 Arnold Schwarzenegger also describes his travel from Austria to the big U.S.A. According to Arnold the travel was about fulfilling his dreams instead of simply being an ordinary police officer in Austria like his old man. Schwarzenegger is a great example of the opportunities and possibilities that lies in the American dream; he succeeded and became a great and sought actor and later was elected governor of California or the “the golden state” as people call it. Text 3 has a more negative view on the American dream. Anya Kanentz, the author of the text thinks the American dream is wounded or even dead. In her opinion money in it self do not make you happy. Instead she elucidates the “real” American dream, where people spend more time on their family than their occupation. She also beliefs that people today are to materialistic thinking, they are more preoccupied by their jobs than their families. Like text 3, text 4 also takes a skeptical stance towards the American dream. The author, David Wallechinsky, argues that people should be able to live a comfortable life without worrying too much about things like money. He claims that the...
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...The American Dream 1. In text no. 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger has written a comment in the U.S. News & World Report. The American dream is interpreted as something you make yourself worthy for. Schwarzenegger came from Austria to the States in 1983, hoping to fulfill his dreams, instead of becoming a police officer like his father. Schwarzenegger succeeded, especially in his acting-career, but also in his political career. Today he is the governor of California. But there wasn’t anything given to him for free. According to this text, he had to work very hard to accomplish these achievements. In line 13 he writes that “Hard work and determination” was what it took for him to be successful. Schwarzenegger is very humble, when it comes to moving and adjusting to a new country, and he claims that it’s important that immigrants give something back, when they receive so much. Text no. 3 is an article from Yahoo! Finance. It has a much more negative/pessimistic point of view about the American Dream and the time we live in. Anya Kamenetz, the author of this article, supports her opinions on surveys and studies. For instance she found out that once people earn more than $50,000 a year, their level of happiness does not rise with the money they earn, as it should, according to the general idea of the American Dream (page 7, line 17). The last text is called “Is the American Dream still possible?”, and as the name of it indicates, it’s written with doubtfulness. David Wallechinsky...
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...Helen Driver Literature 221 November 20, 2014 Magnus Derrick: The Governor As the leader of the farmers’ defense league, Magnus Derrick has many troubles and hatred from many others within his league. His dialect is short of a redneck that we see today because of his short worded phrases and cut down words that only the people in his community can understand him. The governor has the features of an athlete even at his age, and his sons’ are two of the different kinds that he likes to describe them in many ways short of very descriptive. He tends to fit just right in to the community, the valley of farmers, with his sense of argument means to get what he wants no matter the consequences and in turn makes enemies like a leader of a gang or rebel group. Magnus is just like many other American’s during his time and beyond, the follow the rule of law. Almost sixty years old, Magnus Derrick, an all-American politician and leader that always commands his presence like a military officer, gambles his principles and way of living to his own ruin through the use of the enemy’s bad means for his good cause in the form of rebellion. One way that Magnus portrays as an all-American, is not just the fact he is a farmer but he knows how to talk and negotiate like an American. He tends to smile a lot and talks easily to strangers and shares personal stories like any other American would. Another attribute of The Governor is his ability to be polite to anyone by shaking their hand, looking...
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...Maegan Forney GOVT 2306-N01 10 June 2015 Special Project #1 Governor Rick Perry gave a speech in 2009 regarding the issues Texas was facing. Governor Perry was extremely confident throughout his speech. During Perry’s speech, He was constantly referring back to the Texas Constitution. Perry is a right winged man who takes extreme pride in his state. At the end of his main point, Perry stated “This is how Texans have always been, very about themselves,” which is a good thing. Each state should put its foundations before everything else. The 10th Amendment subject has been debated for some time now, according to Perry. His belief is that the constitution does not empower the federal government to infringe upon our states rights. A states primary concern should be the peoples individual rights and responsibilities that the state has. I think that if Texas returned to what the Constitution and 10th Amendment really meant, it would become a much stronger, as a state. Perry is interested in being “a leader in a very strong 10th Amendment movement” and working with those who agree with him in the sense that Washington has become too intrusive. He wants to put America back on the right track, and to do so he needs each state to start competing with each other to encourage prosperity. To become a powerful country with a strong economy again, Perry believes that acting out the 10th Amendment will be something that will take him to where he wants to be. I think that everything...
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...vision needed to lead South Carolina. In Monday night’s ETV debate, Republican Henry McMaster trouped himself as the experienced candidate with the ruling and development needed to step in for the governor “in case something happens,” to run the state’s $40 million Office on Aging and to preside over the state Senate. “Presiding over the Senate’s 46 members, some powerful, been there a long time? Not easy,” said McMaster of Columbia. “They must have respect for that person to get things done.” But Bakari Sellers, also an attorney and a state House member since 2007, said he is the only candidate who has “actually created a job for someone other than themselves.” “We have an ‘experience’ discussion, and the irony is, I’m some 30 years the junior, but I think I actually bring more experience to the table.” Sellers said that as a state representative, he helped bring 2,800 jobs to Bamberg, Barnwell and Orangeburg counties when a manufacturer moved to Denmark, Sellers’ hometown. “I can’t take credit, like the governor does, for all those jobs,” Sellers said. “But I’ve been in that room before, and that’s the irony in this whole discussion about experience.” Sellers also noted he has served in the House for two years longer than Gov. Nikki Haley before the Republican ran for governor, beating McMaster in the GOP primary. McMaster touted his four years as a U.S. attorney under President Ronald Reagan and his eight years as state attorney...
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...and today remains to be marginally democratic. It has long been known for its toleration of corruption in government. In his manuscript, “Peapatch Politics: The Earl long Era in Louisiana Politics”, former Lieutenant Governor Bill Dodd describes corruption as "a way of life, inherited, and made quasi-respectable and legal by the French freebooters who founded, operated, and left us as the governmental blueprint that is still Louisiana's constitutional and civil law." Among the 50 United States, Louisiana ranks as number 15 with an overall grade of a C minus on the Corruption Risk Report Card. (Louisiana - Legislative Accountability, 2013) Serving as Louisiana’s fiftieth governor for four terms in 1972 to 1980 and 1984 to 1988, Edwin Washington Edwards, who is remembered by many as a colorful, powerful, and legendary figure in Louisiana politics, ended his sixteen years in office short of colorful and powerful. The former Governor of Louisiana, Edwards was subject to a near two dozen state and federal investigations beginning in 1960 when he held a Congress position. Edward’s fraud behaviors were consistent to those of bribery and corruption, which is about thirty percent of all fraud that is uncovered. In 1971 before Edwards was even elected to be governor and still serving as a United States Representative, Edwards and about 115 other members of Congress had received questionable gifts from the Korean government, but in 1976 the scandal known as Koreagate, had come to...
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...Dear Rick Snyder. Some of the objectives that you had prior to your election include: creation of more and better jobs, leverage of the new system of taxation, reinvention of the government, helping the youth better their lives, restoring the cities, enhancement of national and international image, protection of the environment, revitalization of the education system and reinvention of the health care system. I believe that these are the objectives that govern your leadership in Michigan. So far, you have tried in achieving some of these objectives although there is still a lot that need to be done. The first budget dabbed ‘Michigan’s reinvention’, which you presented to the legislature showed your commitment to end Michigan’s constant financial deficit. Your aim of presenting this budget was to create more jobs and enhance economic growth as stated in your objectives. This was a very important step that you took towards achieving this objective. Your trips to Afghanistan in April 2012 as well as the visit to Kuwait and Germany to visit injured U.S soldiers showed your concern for the American citizens. Your commitment to enhance national and international image can be seen from the trade missions that you have engaged in. some of them include missions to Europe, Asia as well as other nations globally. These have helped to improve business relations at the international level as well as enhance research and open up opportunities for universities in Michigan. Your concern for...
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