Texas Government Questions with CORRECT Answers (Verified Update)
Q1: The governor of Texas has strong powers granted by the Texas Constitution. True or False?
A. True
B. False
Answer: B. False
Q2: Why is the Texas governors power exceptionally weak as compared to that of the governors
of some other states?
Answer: Because of the plural executive system
Q3: What do some argue is the one advantage of a plural executive in Texas?
Answer: It constrains the governor in the pursuit of excessive policies.
Q4: Governors can be quite powerful in spite of weaknesses of the office by
Answer: Mobilizing interest groups and editorial boards of newspapers. Calling special sessions of
the legislature. Pardoning criminals and permitting fugitives to be extradited to other states.
Q5: Which term best describes the executive branch?
Answer: It is fragmented
Q6: Know that constitutionally, the state of the state message must be given..
Answer: By the governor at the beginning of each legislative session
Q7: What are the qualifications for the office of the governor of Texas?
Answer: 30 years of age , prior political experience, US citizen
Q8: What are the informal criterion/criteria for becoming governor ?
Answer: Governors are historically white, male & Protestant
Q9: In the history of Texas, the only other female governor other than Miriam Ferguson was
Barbra Jordan. True or False?
A. True
B. False
Answer: B. False
Q1: The governor of Texas has strong powers granted by the Texas Constitution. True or False?
A. True
B. False
Answer: B. False
Q2: Why is the Texas governors power exceptionally weak as compared to that of the governors
of some other states?
Answer: Because of the plural executive system
Q3: What do some argue is the one advantage of a plural executive in Texas?
Answer: It constrains the governor in the pursuit of excessive policies.
Q4: Governors can be quite powerful in spite of weaknesses of the office by
Answer: Mobilizing interest groups and editorial boards of newspapers. Calling special sessions of
the legislature. Pardoning criminals and permitting fugitives to be extradited to other states.
Q5: Which term best describes the executive branch?
Answer: It is fragmented
Q6: Know that constitutionally, the state of the state message must be given..
Answer: By the governor at the beginning of each legislative session
Q7: What are the qualifications for the office of the governor of Texas?
Answer: 30 years of age , prior political experience, US citizen
Q8: What are the informal criterion/criteria for becoming governor ?
Answer: Governors are historically white, male & Protestant
Q9: In the history of Texas, the only other female governor other than Miriam Ferguson was
Barbra Jordan. True or False?
A. True
B. False
Answer: B. False
