Founded in 1975, the National Conference of State Legislatures is one of several non-profit organizations that claims to represent the legislatures in the states, territories and commonwealths of the U.S. Its mission is to advance the effectiveness, independence and integrity of legislatures and to foster interstate cooperation and facilitate the exchange of information among legislatures.
NCSL also represents legislatures in dealing with the federal government, especially in support of state sovereignty and state flexibility and protection from unfunded federal mandates and unwarranted federal preemption. The conference promotes cooperation between state legislatures in the U.S. and those in other countries.
In addition, NCSL is committed to improving the operations and management of state legislatures, and the effectiveness of legislators and legislative staff. NCSL also encourages the practice of high standards of conduct by legislators and legislative staff.
United States Constitution: Elections and Voting Rights
National Conference of State Legislatures: Polling Places
National Conference of State Legislatures: 50-state surveys
* The NCSL would be advised to change the name of the game they have coded for teaching schoolchildren in the United States — a “constitutional republic”; not a democracy. A democracy is aptly described as “two foxes and a chicken” deciding what’s for dinner. Among the nearly two-hundred national governing documents in the world the United States Constitution presents the go-to standard limiting the power of the central national government so that a federation of 50 independent states can govern themselves to the furthest extent possible. Education communities in the United States are closely aligned with partisans of a large federal government; a fact that effects every dimension of American culture and, for our intent, effects the architectural character of these cities-within-cities because of the money flow that sustains them.
