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- Criminal Justice – Question 10
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Early Governors in South Carolina were limited in their power. In 1670, they made their settlement at Albemarle Point, which is now known at Charles Town Landing, they met with their Grand Council. In these meetings they would discuss the current disputes going on or consult executive orders. A new governor was established and the grand council was made into the Royal Colony in 1719. Starting in 1776 the governor was in charge of all of South Carolina’s Government. In 1866 Congress ended the governor’s office, provisional governor Benjamin Perry because of South Carolina’s failure to adopt the 14th amendment. The governor’s office became recognized as a distinct branch of government in 1868. Also, during this time a governor must be elected by popular vote, and the power to veto was reestablished. The governor was responsible for commanding the state militia, initiating proposals to the general assembly, granting reprieves and pardons, and the commission of state officers.
Kaycee Doying
The evolution of the governors powers dates back to 1660, when Carolina proprietors during the rule of Charles II had great government power that allowed them to make peace, war, create towns, grant titles, and create an army. The Carolina proprietors also appointed members to lower legislative body. By the end of the Revolutionary war, a new constitution stripped the governor much of his powers namely because of the distaste of high authority rule set previous King of England. A new constitution was adopted in 1790 that gave the General Assembly more powers and denied the governor the power of the veto with a short term in office. After the Civil War, President Andrew Johnson appointed Benjamin Perry as the provisional governor of the state and like the other ex-confederacy states it needed the adopted the Civil War Amendments. The next evolution of the governor office was during the South Carolina Constitution of 1868, we see that the governor is giving the power of veto, is a separate branch of the S.C. government, voted by population, controlled the state militia, initiate proposal to the General Assembly, grant reprieves, pardons and commission state officers. During the era of the S.C. constitution of 1895, the governor was given the power of line item veto and the system of checks and balances was created. Despite the new change, according to the text, the responsibility and authority within the executive branch remained poorly defined. The powers of the governor of South Carolina has seen little change but is slowly gaining more influences I the dealing with state policies.
Xavier de Jesus
When South Carolina was in its infancy with reagrds to politics and more specifically thier governor, the governor did not have as much power as he does today and the power which he did have was different. The early governers had powers which allowed them to both protect thier colony and make it better. At this time people were very weary of all powerful kings, governers, presidents, because of teh way the governmnet worked in England. After the civil war the governer of South Carolina got back the right to veto, which certainly gave the position more power. At this time also, the governer was elected, which I feel gives tthem nore power also because of the fact that the people voted he/she in, rather than being appointed.
matt Burroughs
In South Carolina during the early beginning powers were limited to governors. In the text it states, “King Charles II of England gave a group of English investors large tracts of land in what is today known as South Carolina." Thus, South Carolina began as a proprietary colony and this propriety ruled the colony for the first 55 years of its history. Through the 1664 to 1719 the affairs of the colony were conducted by a Grand Council, which consisted of 10 members who were elected by the proprietors and landowners in the colony. The governor was appointed by the proprietors and later a Commons House of Assembly. The Commons House consisted of 20 members and was created in 1691 and gradually became more and more powerful after its creation. In 1719 the proprietors were overthrown in 1719 due to the dissatisfaction of landowners and merchants that made up the Commons House. After the overthrown of the proprietors the English king stepped in and made South Carolina a royal colony. The Grand Council now became His Majesty’s Council. The South Carolina Constitution of 1776 called for the governor to be elected by the legislators themselves rather than the people. It was not until 1865 that the populace would select the governor. The second Constitution drawn up in 1778 deprived the governor of the power to veto legislative acts. It gave the two house names that we still use today the Senate and House of Representatives. In 1790 another Constitution was drawn up which the legislative could elect not only the governor but also all other state officials, including judges and many local officials. Thus began a tradition of legislators selecting judicial officials that remain to this day. In 1868 the governor was elected by popular vote, the veto power of the governor was also reestablished. The lower houses were appointed on the basis of population alone rather than using wealth and property consideration.
Cequita E
Most of you had the theme correct, but Xavier gave the most complete answer –- powerful early governors whether appointed by the Lords Proprietors or by the King and very weak governors after the Revolutionary War as a reaction to distrust of “king-like” strong executives. The governor was chosen (along with judges) by the legislature till after the Civil War – no checks or balances in this strong legislative state!
The path-breaking Constitution of 1868, written by a convention dominated by freed slaves, finally created a separate branch with some powers to provide some semblance of checks and balances, including a general veto.
In the 1895 Constitution, which was motivated mainly by whites wanting to drive blacks completely out of political power, the powers were increased a bit by giving the governor a line-item veto. At the same time the executive branch was fragmented by having separately elected constitutional officers that a strong governor would appoint or at least nominate as part of the cabinet.
What the text does not say at this point (but what comes up later in the chapter) is that the governor was limited to a single term of four years. Early governors only had two year terms (see box on page 225 and note the dates of office for governors).
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