Proposition 140

The legislative framework of a country refers to the process of creating, utilization, and governing of laws. In the United States, the government of each of the 50 states is structured in accordance with their respective constitution and although not required, each are modeled after the federal government, consisting of the three branches: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. Each of the state governments are also organized as a presidential system where the governor is the head of the state. Due to each state having their own governor as their representative, their legislative framework will vary with each state. For this paper, I will be comparing the legislative framework of Florida with the state of California.

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More convincing than the fact that the majority of incumbents retained their seats by overwhelming margins is the shocking statistic that a quarter of the incumbents were uncontested.13 These politicians were so successful at arranging favorable districts that it was futile to even attempt a challenge. The author continued to examine particularly egregious cases of gerrymandering in New York, including that of Senator Guy Vellela, who once selected voters for his district by individual city blocks.14 Senator Guy Vellela, as well as the other state senators of New York, are prime examples of politicians exploiting gerrymandering to manipulate the outcome of elections and improve their outcomes.

Otto von Bismarck once said, “Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” The arduous process that a bill undergoes in order to become a law may seem grueling and pointless; however, the processes high caliber of difficulty allows for the extreme prestige and exclusivity of bills that are passed. Because the process is so exhausting, and filibusters, subsequently requiring a super-majority vote to pass a bill, have always been such a threat in Congress, historically, bills that attempt to reform sensitive issues have not fared well in the legislative branch. However, when Congress does pass controversial laws, it then also faces the task of effectively enforcing them. But, when the process is carried out to

There are many reforms that have been discussed one being to extend the term for members of the Texas Legislature. Many feel that if the Senate is extended to six years and the House of Representative to four years it will allow the members to obtain more experience in fields and be able to not have to worry about when the next election is as often. Many critics feel that the time members are in session are too short to make any real progress, reformers would like to increase the length of legislative sessions from the current 140 days. Others feel that increasing the sessions would allow for more laws and regulations. This will be an ongoing debate where there will always be two sides to the possibility of reform which will impact the possibility of it being passed.

This paper is about Nevada’s government. It provides details into how Nevada became a state and when the Nevada constitution was created. My paper also explains what the governor of Nevada does and how his formal powers compare to those of the President. I will explain Nevada’s choice of having a direct democracy and what that actually entails. Finally, I will also provide a comparison of strengths and weaknesses in Nevada’s process in electing judges.

Moreover, it is full of nonessential, and unorganized legislations that have since become outdated and invalidated, and this should be ratified by being rewritten in a more clear, to-the-point, and modernized manner so that the Texas legislating process can function more efficiently and effectively. In addition, the lack of time the Texas Constitution allocates for the Texas House and Senate to meet in correlation with the demands of such a vastly populated state, is beyond outdated, and calls for modification. Moreover, the small salaries these members receive also unduly limits the attention our Executive Branch members can direct towards their responsibilities to Texas and its citizens. Furthermore, although it is important to put some limitations on the power of government, the extreme limitations that the Texas Constitution places on the Legislative and Executive branches unnecessarily impedes the Texas legislating

California's Proposition 13 had a big impact on American government and public policy because it put to vote the reduction of property taxes. This Proposition had a great impact as it swept the county and made headlines in newspapers around the world. People used this initiative process to gain a greater control over their lives. The California taxpayers stood up and said no more to excessive taxes because they were tired of out of control property taxes and losing their homes because they could not pay property taxes while the government did nothing to help them. This in turn hurt the schools, cities, counties and special districts. From this proposition, we have a few others like

The Texas state legislature should be reconstructed to meet annually rather than biannually. Because Texas is met on a bi-annual basis, the beginning of each session is typically filled with bills that are declared emergency measures. As a result of Texas only meeting for a one hundred and forty day period, an unfortunate consequence is that bills need to be rushed and may miss something important or even may not be looked at during the session. However one may argue that the biannual meetings for a one hundred and forty day period still serve a useful purpose. suppose the Texas legislature was extended on time and/or how often they met, who is to say that the legislature will not simply have more time to procrastinate. It is tenable to think

Abstract: The term limits movement for state legislatures has been gaining momentum. Fourteen states adopted limit initiatives in 1992. The goal of this final paper was to determine the factors that have contributed to the growth of the term limits movement. Much background research was conducted to determine the characteristics of the movement. Past research suggested several apparent reasons for the growth of the movement. These reasons included the existence of direct initiative, rates of legislator turnover, incumbency, regional political culture, citizen involvement, and the influence of interest groups.The overall questions for the project were to evaluate the factors which may have affected the movement. Including: what factors have influenced the growth of the term limits movement? In order to answer this question several hypotheses were tested for factors which have been used to explain the movement. The overall research conclusion was that the only explanatory factor for the growth of the term limits movement was the existence of the direct state initiative. The other factors include the regulation of the congressional developments. More states would have term limits if they had the power of initiative and term limits will likely be restricted to states which have this power, however, they should be placed in congress.

California Proposition 62, the Repeal of the Death Penalty Initiative, is on the November 8, 2016, ballot in California as an initiated state statute. California is one of the 30 states in which death penalty is legal. This referendum plays a vital role in deciding the criminal system justice system. There exist many arguments from the people in support and in opposition of this proposition. People in favor of the Proposition 62 are mostly former death penalty advocates, while the people in opposition are the ones who have been the indirect victims of some worst criminals. The question raised by this proposition is similar to the issue raised in Just Mercy, which talks about problems in the American justice system.

In Washington, the president is required to sign or reject the bills passed by congress. They are not allowed to approve the parts that they like and veto the parts that they dislike because they need to focus more on ways to improve the government. Since the line item- veto power allows the governor to reduce or eliminate the specific spending item and not increase the bill, California legislature members are not allowed to force the governor’s hand by including an item that he rejects a larger bill which was supported by many candidates. Third, the apportionment and district size have a significant impact on fully developing the national growth based on the circumstances of the U.S. Congress and the California Legislature. Both houses of the California legislature, the Senate and the Assembly, are

Proposition 50 was the only California state proposition on the primary ballot last June. Due to current law, no official can be suspended and stripped of their benefits or salary, causing them to be able to get away with actions they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with. Due to many recent actions involving the issues of suspension Prop 50 was drafted. This proposition was designed to refuse legislative members’ salaries, pensions, or other privileges of their office if they have been suspended by a two-thirds vote from the state legislation. Voting yes would allow the legislature the ability to suspend a member and his pay. It gained bipartisan support on this proposition because of recent events that have shed new light on how corrupt

While understanding all of the concepts of what exactly was a initiative and how it is qualified for an upcoming ballot or is currently in circulation, i learned to pick an initiative that i was interested in which is the Environmental Health, Prohibited Substances and Activities, and Vaccination Initiative Statute. This initiative starts off by the powers of the electors to propose statutes and amendments to the Constitution and to adopt or reject them. An initiative measure may be proposed by presenting to the Secretary of State a petition that sets forth the text of the proposed statute or amendment to the Constitution and is certified to have been signed by electors equal in number to 5 percent in the case of a statute, and 8 percent in the case of an amendment to the Constitution, of the votes for all candidates for Governor at the last gubernatorial election. However, an initiative measure may not contain alternative or cumulative provisions wherein one or more of those provisions would become law depending upon the casting of a specified percentage of votes for or against the measure. Therefore, an initiative depends fully on how the society views the initiative as a benefit or a disadvantage. For instance, right now a Initiative

To understand the underlying political processes of Proposition 47, it is important to operationalize the merits of the proposed measure. Proposition 47 endeavors to reduce penalties for nonserious and nonviolent crimes, as well as, prioritizes prison spendings on violent offenses (Couzens and Bigelow 2016, 6). Proposition 47 consists of four primary statues: it reforms criminal sentences and misdemeanor penalties. Certain drug possessions offenses along with petty theft, receiving stolen property, and forging under the amount of $950 requires a misdemeanor sentence instead of a felony (Couzens and Bigelow 2016, 6). Inmates serving felony sentences are allowed to petition the court to resentence convictions to misdemeanors; likewise, Proposition