California

====Executive branch====
{{main|California executive branch|Governor of California|List of California state agencies}}
[[File:Stanford Mansion - Sacramento, California (6007570640) (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|The [[Leland Stanford Mansion|Stanford Mansion]] is the official reception center for the California government and one of the workplaces of the [[Governor of California]].]]
The [[California executive branch]] consists of the governor and seven other elected constitutional officers: [[Lieutenant Governor of California|lieutenant governor]], [[California Attorney General|attorney general]], [[Secretary of State of California|secretary of state]], [[California State Controller|state controller]], [[California State Treasurer|state treasurer]], [[California Insurance Commissioner|insurance commissioner]], and [[California State Superintendent of Public Instruction|state superintendent of public instruction]]. They serve four-year terms and may be re-elected only once.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Article V of the California Constitution |url=http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=CONS&division=&title=&part=&chapter=&article=V |access-date=March 6, 2019 |website=[[California Office of Legislative Counsel]]}}</ref>

The many [[List of California state agencies|California state agencies]] that are under the governor's cabinet are grouped together to form cabinet-level entities that are referred to by government officials as "superagencies". Those departments that are directly under the other independently elected officers work separately from these superagencies.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Van Vechten |first1=Renée B. |title=California Politics: A Primer |date=2011 |publisher=SAGE |location=Los Angeles |isbn=978-1-4522-0306-5 |page=63 |edition=2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tatzWQscKmcC&pg=PA63 |access-date=February 25, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Lawrence">{{cite book |last1=Lawrence |first1=David G. |last2=Cummins |first2=Jeffrey |title=California: The Politics of Diversity |date=2019 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |location=Lanham |isbn=978-1-5381-2930-2|page=167 |edition=10th |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FwmkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA167}}</ref>