In addition, decentralization has enabled local leaders like Joko Widodo, Jakarta's governor, to exercise more authority in pursuing public works projects, Ms. Mu'min said.
The Ravitch case, known as Skelos v. Paterson, lost much of its intrigue after Democrats reclaimed the majority in the State Senate in July leaving no need for a lieutenant governor to exercise the tiebreaking power the officeholder has under the State Constitution.
Through the years the General Assembly has created a myriad of commissions and turned them over to the governor to exercise administrative oversight..
Furthermore, his state allows the governor to exercise a line item veto (giving the chief executive the power to pick and choose certain items he wants eliminated from the budget) and does not have limits based on "motivation".
Still, on August 3, 1927, the governor refused to exercise his power of clemency; his advisory committee agreed with this stand.
And yet, as the clock counted down, Madeleine Albright, America's secretary of state, sought in vain to get the state's governor, Jim Gilmore, to exercise clemency.Her intervention had to do with politics, not morality.
Two years later, the Queen of Canada issued the 1988 letters patent authorising the governor general "to exercise or provide for the exercise of all powers and authorities lawfully belonging to Us as Queen of Canada in respect of the granting of armorial bearings in Canada".
"And with modern communication, the governor is able to continue to exercise his powers".
Students campaigning against the constitutional change have faced harassment and arrest.Opposition politicians elected as mayors and state governors last November have found it hard to exercise power.
"I certainly hope that we wouldn't have to exercise that option," the governor said at a news conference today.
Mr. Spitzer will have no formal role in Mr. Paterson's administration, however, and is not expected to exercise his powers as governor or appear in Albany, she said.
