Maybe one or more States could copy part of the Roman model, by having every member of the Executive Branch directly elected and then automatically being given a seat in the State Senate after their term of office ends.
Maybe one or more States could copy part of the Roman model, by having every member of the Executive Branch directly elected and then automatically being given a seat in the State Senate after their term of office ends.
When Long was in the US Senate, the serving governors in Baton Rouge (King and Allen) were pretty close to being puppets.
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Maybe one or more States could copy part of the Roman model, by having every member of the Executive Branch directly elected and then automatically being given a seat in the State Senate after their term of office ends.
What about the powers of the Governor being given to a collective (Staatsrat in East Germany, Bundesrat in Switzerland, the two Regents in San Marino or the two Co-Princes of Andorra) or, pre-1963, an Upper House constitued on a corporatist model (see the functionnal constituencies of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong or the 1969 French project)?
Oh. I thought you meant the longest serving State Senator was Governor, I didn't think you meant Long.
Interesting, does that include people like the Governor, the Lt. Gov, the Secretary of State and so on?
Here's one - kind of stretch, but have Texas adopt a parliamentary system as a republic, and then hang on to it when it becomes a state.
It's weird, but that's Texas...
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In the 60's did we changed the Governors terms from 2 years to 4 years, with Jack Williams being the first to be affected by that. Coincidentally he's the last to enter and leave office by election (others have left or ascended due to impeachment threats, appointments, actually impeachments, or death). And we too lack a Lieutenant Governor, our directly elected Secretary of State ascends (if they are appointed like Rose Mofford was in 1978, it skips over to the directly elected Attorney General) to the Governorship, which leads to some issues of two parties holding the seats and switching.