> I'm not familiar with the texas government, but doesn't the fact that it ended up on the governor's desk mean that the "narrowly focused, dogmatic" politician

> I'm not familiar with the texas government, but doesn't the fact that it ended up on the governor's desk mean that the "narrowly focused, dogmatic" politicians run the two chambers? The legislature has a 'mandate' from the people because it was elected. The governor has a 'mandate' from the people because he was elected. Does one have more of a mandate than the other, or are they equal? What happens when they have different policies? This is one of the weakness of presidential systems: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_system#Efficiencies_and_inefficiencies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_system#Efficienci...