South Carolina: Government, Politics, and Higher Education
Government, Politics, and Higher Education
South Carolina's legislature has a senate with 46 members and a house of representatives with 124 members. The state sends two senators and seven representatives to the U.S. Congress and has nine electoral votes. In the early 1970s the state's 1895 constitution was extensively revised. The executive branch is headed by a governor elected for a four-year term. From 1876 to 1975 all the state's governors were Democrats, and South Carolina was part of the “Solid South.” Since then Republicans have come to dominate statewide politics.
Among South Carolina's institutions of higher education are The Citadel–The Military College of South Carolina and the College of Charleston, at Charleston; Clemson Univ., at Clemson; Furman Univ., at Greenville; South Carolina State Univ., at Orangeburg; and the Univ. of South Carolina, at Columbia.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Voting Rights, Desegregation, and Economic Growth
- The Decline of Agriculture and the Rise of Jim Crowism
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Pre–Civil War Discontent
- The Coming of Revolution
- South Carolina as a Royal Colony
- Life under Proprietary Rule
- French, Spanish, and English Colonization
- Government, Politics, and Higher Education
- Economy
- Geography
- Facts and Figures
- Bibliography
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