AHC: Alternate American (US) State Governments.

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.

That's an interesting thought; hadn't considered that one before!
 
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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Oh. I thought you meant the longest serving State Senator was Governor, I didn't think you meant Long.

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.

Interesting, does that include people like the Governor, the Lt. Gov, the Secretary of State and so on?
 
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)?

New Hampshire and North Carolina have something like that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Council_of_New_Hampshire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Council_of_State

Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Oregon also had executive councils in the past. Also, Texas' governor is mostly a figurehead and executive power is spread across a bunch of elected officials.
 

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Here's one - kind of stretch, but have Texas

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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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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Hmmm...How about this. Henry Clay is elected President, punting the annexation debate for awhile, and Houston runs for Texas Representative rather than having his men run for President. Therein (as he couldn't run for a 3rd term) he amasses legal and informal power as Speaker (Texas and Sam Houston were one and the same in the Republic days, if he wanted the office to be strong then the rivers and mountains would move themselves for him). After Houston spends some or a little time there the office holds onto it's strength and carries out to modern day, even after annexation. Even now the Texas Governor is a bit weaker then it's brothers are.

Sometimes power in an office lasts, see Washington and the Presidency, and other times it depends on the man in power, see Henry Clay and some Reconstruction Speakers before Roosevelt came in.
 
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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.

I'm glad that my post was clear despite being so poorly written :eek:

Virginia is a srare with an actual Lieutenant Governor elected separately from the Governor, though in modern campaigns, they try to run as a slate with the Attorney General. Rarely has ir worked in recent memory that one party held all three posts, though the Democrats do right now, and the Republicans did from 2009-2013.
 
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