One of the best races in this blockbuster election year will be for lieutenant governor. In bygone years, this was a much more powerful position than it is today. For about 50 years, from the 1950s through the 1990s, the lieutenant governor controlled the State Senate. The Constitution gives the power to the State House and State Senate to organize their own bodies. The Senate relinquished this power to the lieutenant governor when the most brilliant parliamentarian in the annals of Alabama legislative history, Jim Allen, became lieutenant governor. The legendary Senator, Jim Allen of Gadsden, became lieutenant governor and...

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