In the 49 U.S. states with bicameral legislatures, the two houses have equal legislative authority, but the so-called upper houses usually called senates have the special function of confirming the governors' appointments.
Mr. Ramey, an assistant attorney general, explained that under New Jersey's Constitution, an acting governor does not become governor, but only performs the functions of governor.
In Massachusetts, the lieutenant governor does not preside over the state Senate, as is the case in many other states; nevertheless, as lieutenant governor, Coolidge was a deputy governor functioning as administrative inspector and was a member of the governor's council.
With the accepted political roles of a constitutional monarch reduced to consultation, encouragement and warning, he argues, the sovereign had been deprived of those "historic male functions of god and governor and general" and been left essentially with the traditionally feminine roles of "giving comfort and nurturing good causes".
There is no special representational role to be played by the states of the governor.
The Governor of Maryland is the Chairman of the Governor's Executive Council (or Cabinet) which coordinates all state government functions.
"I don't know the extent of the governor's involvement in energy-related matters, but he never functioned as a spokesperson of Range," Pitzarella told EnergyWire.
A friend of the governor".
The state-level regressors are population size, the political party of the Governor, and state dummies.
This again limits the ability of the governor to expand state-funded programs for political returns.
