POLS 2312

Term limit

A legal limitation on the numbers of terms an elected official may serve in office

Miriam Ferguson

first woman to be elected governor of Texas

Democratic Lt Governor Bob Bullock

Who had a close relationship with Republican Governor George Bush?

Nathan Hecht

Current Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court

William Hobby

Texas’ longest serving Lt Governor

Jane Nelson

Served in the state senate and is the current Texas secretary of state

Sid Miller

in his third term as Secretary of Agriculture

Bill Clements

became the first Republican governor of Texas in 100 years in 1978

William Lee O’Daniel

best known by his nickname Pappy

Abraham George

The newest chair of the Texas Republican Party

Stephen F Austin

made his fortune as an empresario who organized Anglo settlement in Texas

Rick Perry

Was appointed Secretary of Energy by President Donald Trump

The current Texas house has ___ members and a required quorum of ___

150, 100

According to individualist political culture

Individuals are best left largely free of the intervention of community forces

Texas governors have issued an average of ___ executive orders per year since ___

39, 1950

A ___ ______ ___ by the governor is always absolute.

Post adjournment veto

The goal of the Adelsverein Society was to…

provide a Texas market for German goods

Presidential republicanism

Voting for Republicans in national elections and Democrats for state and local offices

Texas won its independence from Mexico in…

the battle of San Jacinto

Unfunded mandate

occurs when the national government passes legislation that imposes requirement on state and local governments and then requires them to bear the costs

Devolution

power should be returned to the states

Under ____ ___ all local governments are creatures of state governments.

Dillon’s Rule

The U.S. is a…

federalist country

Expressed powers

Enumerated powers; powers of the national government explicitly listed in the constitution

Extradition

State sending criminals back to other state for trial

Only state with a unicameral legislature

Nebraska

In Texas, the Lt Governor is selected by what?

a statewide vote

Markup

where a committee goes through a bill line-by-line

Base salary of the Texas legislature

$600 a month

Rider

a bill that deals with an unrelated subject

What two states have two supreme courts?

Texas and Oklahoma

Used to maximize political party strength

Gerrymandering

A Plaintiff in a civil case…

has been wronged by another party; is the person bringing the case against someone else

Governor of Texas must be how old?

30

Current salary of the Texas Governor

$153,750

Ribbon cutting

one of the governor’s ceremonial duties

The lowest level of criminal offense in the Texas penal code is a…

class C misdemeanor

Suffrage

legal right to vote

Smith v Allwright (1944)

Supreme Court ruled that in primary elections states could not longer restrict voters based on race

Nineteenth Amendment

gave women the right to vote

Civil Liberties

inalienable, individual freedoms and essential

In 1867 Congress outlawed ____, where employers compel workers to pay off their debt with labor

Peonage

Texas Railroad Commission now regulates mostly…

oil and gas

Texas Secretary of State is appointed by…

the governor

Patronage

spoils system (nepotism)

Sunshine laws

passed to make the government more transparent

A per curiae opinion is…

one by the court as a whole without signatures by individual judges

How many boards and commissions are in Texas?

about 300

Who manages the Texas utility grid?

ERCOT

“En banc”

“on the bench,” all judges on a particular court hear a case

Department of Criminal Justice members serve how long of terms?

six year terms

Absent (In?) an official record de novo…

appeals from municipal courts are heard

Another name for a state merit system

Missouri Plam

Justice of Peace courts have…

original jurisdiction; a court’s power to hear a case for the first time without a lower court’s review first

The Texas Supreme Court hears both…

civil cases and juvenile cases

Views crime as a fundamental break in society

Restorative justice

Recent tort reform in Texas centered on…

protecting doctors in civil suits

A capital felony

The highest offense level in the Texas penal code

Beyond a reasonable doubt is the _____________ in a criminal case

burden of proof

Large punitive damages are typically given to…

send a message to society

De facto segregation

a product of human behavior; schools still segregated even after Brown v Board