Commonwealth Curiosities
The required minimum age to serve as a Representative in the Kentucky General Assembly.
24 years of age
The total number of court tiers in the Kentucky court system.
4
The two prominent roles that Justice Elena Kagan held before joining the Supreme Court.
Dead of Harvard Law School and Solicitor General of the United States
This is the specific payroll tax for which there is "No Limit" on the wage base for the standard tax.
Medicare
This is the specific rule in the Kentucky General Assembly that requires a bill to relate to only one subject clearly stated in the title.
Single Subject Rule
This special power of the Kentucky Governor allows them to reject specific items of the budget without vetoing the entire bill.
This is the difference between the role of a District Court (the "Trier of Fact") and an Appellate Court (which decides this).
Trier of Law
This opinion agrees with the outcome of the majority ruling but for different reasons.
Concurring Opinion
The term for an income tax base that includes wages, savings interest, stock dividends, property rent, and business profits.
Broadest Base
This is the required Senate role that follows a Presidential nomination for an individual to join the Supreme Court.
Advice and Consent
The standard term length for a member of the Kentucky State Senate.
4 Years
The standard term length for a Kentucky Supreme Court Justice.
8 years
This is the unique experience of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson among current justices.
Federal Public Defender
The reason many states exclude specific items like unprocessed food and clothing from sales tax.
Drafted by Jefferson and Madison, these resolutions condemned the Alien and Sedition Acts as unconstitutional violations of free speech.
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
This Kentucky Republican currently serves as the "Dean of the House" for being the longest-serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Hal Rogers
True or False Does the Kentucky Court of Appeals hear Death Penalty Cases?
False: If you are on Death Row you have a right to appeal to the Kentucky Supreme Court.
This term describes the Supreme Court's power to be the final voice on the meaning of the Constitution.
Judicial Supremacy
The two constitutional criteria that must be met for the government to punish speech under the Brandenburg Test.
Imminent Lawless Action and being likely to do so.
This term refers to cases that start directly at the Supreme Court, without first being heard in a lower court.
Original Jurisdiction
This Kentucky Senator is noted for his major accomplishment of systematically remaking the federal judicial branch in a conservative direction.
Mitch McConnell
The federal court circuit where Kentucky is located.
6th Circuit
The 2020 Supreme Court case authored by Justice Gorsuch that recognized much of eastern Oklahoma remains Native American reservation land.
McGirt v. Oklahoma
This "Paradox" explains why lower-income households pay a higher effective rate of sales tax.
Proportionality Paradox
The two specific rights James Madison argued should be equally and completely exempted from government regulation.
Rights of Conscience and Opinion
This man is often called "Mr. No" for his principled record of consistently voting against both parties on limited government grounds.
Thomas Massie
The two specific rights James Madison argued should be equally and completely exempted from government regulation.