Which statement about Texas's executive branch is NOT true?
A) Texas has a plural executive.
B) Elected officials are directly responsible to the governor.
C) The governor shares executive power with several independently elected executives and boards.
D) The constitutional and statutory requirement that several administrators be elected was a deliberate effort to decentralize administrative power.
Q. 2The system of officials and their employees administering or managing government policies and programs is called
A) the spoils system.
B) the bureaucracy.
C) the cabinet.
D) the establishment.
Q. 3The most distinctive characteristic of the Texas administration is
A) no one is officially in charge of the administrative apparatus.
B) that in Texas laws are fragmented into several elective and appointive positions.
C) an agency director heads each executive department.
D) that there is no single official in Texas government that bears ultimate responsibility.
Q. 4The 1876 Texas Constitution granted the governor clemency powers. These powers allow the governor
A) to remove appointed board members from the previous administration upon taking power.
B) to veto bills when the legislature is not in session.
C) to pardon, parole, and grant reprieves to convicted criminals.
D) to appoint blue ribbon commissions to investigate political corruption.
Q. 5____________ is the tradition of allowing a senator to reject the governor's appointment of a political enemy from the senator's district.
A) The Rule of Three
B) Franking
C) Senatorial courtesy
D) Clemency
Q. 6Which term best describes the executive branch in Texas?
A) singular
B) fragmented
C) centralized
D) diversified
Q. 7Texas has a plural executive, which means that
A) Texas is part of the three branches of government.
B) the governor shares executive power with several other independently elected executives and boards.
C) the institutions of government have a system of checks and balances.
D) the executive branch of government is modeled after that of the executive branch at the national level.
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