The Texas Constitution is more explicit than the U.S. Constitution in specifying the elements - though not a comprehensive design - of the bureaucracy.
Article IV on the Executive Department in Texas identifies the top seven executive branch officials. It states: "The executive department of the State shall consist of a governor, who shall be the chief executive officer of the State, a lieutenant-governor, secretary of State, comptroller of public accounts, treasurer, commissioner of the general land office and attorney general."
This article goes on to specify that all of these officers (except the secretary of state) are to be elected by the people. Further, it provides a fair bit of detail on the powers and duties of these officers.
Article XIV provides for a General Land Office for registration of land titles. This article allows the legislature to create subordinate offices within the General Land Office, and it commands the legislature to make this office "self-sustaining" at its earliest opportunity.
Despite the greater specificity of some of the offices that constitute the bureaucracy, the framers could not have envisioned a state administrative apparatus that today employs approximately 1.16 million people full-time, plus about a quarter of a million part-time workers. [3] Indeed, as the chapter on the Texas Constitution points out, the framers were very much concerned about controlling the growth of the state government apparatus and related expenses, and would have been distraught to see that their efforts were less than successful.
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3 U.S. Census Bureau, link: "State Government Employment and Payroll," March 2002.
