Legislative Politics
This concept refers to the minimum number of members required to conduct business in Congress.
What is a quorum?
The 1787 compromise determined how enslaved individuals would be counted for representation and taxation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This clause prohibits states from passing laws that impair contractual obligations.
What is the Contract Clause?
An NCSL alum who became a U.S. Senator and currently represents North Carolina.
Tedd Budd
Name the Governor
Matthew Simonson
This rule in the House limits debate time and determines how amendments can be offered.
What is a rule (from the Rules Committee)?
This 1819 Supreme Court case both reinforced federal supremacy and expanded Congress’s implied powers through the Necessary and Proper Clause.
McCulloch v. Maryland?
This standard of judicial review is applied to laws involving fundamental rights or suspect classifications.
What is strict scrutiny?
This civil rights leader and longtime presidential candidate is listed among NCSL’s notable alumni.
Jesse Jackson
Name the member who works at a shoe store
Emma Watkins
This informal practice allows individual senators to block judicial nominees from their home states.
What is a senatorial hold (or blue slip tradition)?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War and resulted in the U.S. acquiring present-day California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This amendment contains both the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses.
What is the 14th Amendment?
An NCSL alumnus who went on to serve as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Tim Moore
Name the member who is related to a political figure
Cameron Fletcher
This constitutional requirement mandates that all revenue-raising bills originate in the House.
What is the Origination Clause?
This 1867 U.S. legislation divided the South into five military districts and laid out requirements for readmission to the Union.
What is the Reconstruction Acts?
This doctrine holds that some powers belong exclusively to the national government and cannot be exercised by states.
What is the doctrine of federal preemption?
This NCSL alumnus served both as Governor of North Carolina and later in the U.S. Senate.
Terry Sanford
Name the member who interned on Capitol Hill this past summer.
Erik Franklin
This budgeting process allows certain tax and spending legislation to bypass the filibuster in the Senate.
What is budget reconciliation?
This 1874 event saw a coalition of African Americans and white Republicans resist Democratic paramilitary groups in a Louisiana parish election.
What is the Colfax Massacre?
Which SC Justice is known for dissenting against expansive federal power, this justice often warned that Congress and the President were exceeding constitutional limits.
Who is Justice William Rehnquist?
This alumnus is a current member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Terry Brown Jr.
Name the member who cant swim
DCP - Simona Capatina