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-====A. Interpretation: The affirmative must specify a specific country or countries that are banning nuclear power. To clarify, they cannot just defend "countries" as a whole==== |
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-====B. Violation:==== |
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-====C. Standards:==== |
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-====1) Textuality – country is defined as government within a specific territory ==== |
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-**The Law Dictionary '16** (The Law Dictionary ft. Black's Law Dictionary 2nd edition, copyright 2016, http://thelawdictionary.org/country/~~-~~-ghs//sk) |
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-COUNTRY? The portion of the earth's surface occupied by an independent nation or people |
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-the state, or the government, having possession and dominion over a territory |
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-====Resolved implies a policy implemented by a specific legislative instrument==== |
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-**Louisiana House '05**, 3-8-2005, http://house.louisiana.gov/house-glossary.htm |
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-Resolution A legislative instrument that generally is used for making declarations, stating policies, |
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-====Textuality is key to fairness – it's always the most predictable==== |
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-**Merrell '15**, Brandon Merrell (Graduate Student, UC San Diego). "Back to Its Roots: Why Topicality Standards Should Assess Definitional Accuracy Rather than Debate Utility." 2015. DRAFT accessed summer 2014. JDN. Updated version available at: http://www.brandonmerrell.com/papers/Merrell20-20Topicality.pdf |
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-Why is it essential to accurately define the resolution? As Brownlee (1981) |
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-topicality must be even more rigorously protected in parli than in other events. |
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-====And, textuality prevents judge intervention==== |
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-**Diers '10**, Audra R. Diers (Assistant Professor in Organizational Communication and Public Relations at Marist College). "Drawing the Line in the Sand: Re-grounding the Theory and Practice of Topicality Debate." National Forensics Journal, 28(1). Summer 2010. JDN. https://b55eec4b-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/nationalforensicsassociation/research/nfa-journal/vol28no1-2.pdf |
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-The Resolutional Approach. The other primary approach to topicality argumentation articulates a 'truth' |
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-debate as a game, where the resolution only functions to divide ground. |
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-====2) Ground – 90 of policymaking is decided on implementation==== |
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-**Elmore '80** Prof. Public Affairs at University of Washington, 1980 PolySci Quarterly 79-80, p. 605, |
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-The emergence of implementation as a subject for policy analysis coincides closely with the discovery |
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-10 percent, leaving the remaining 90 percent in the realm of implementation. |
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-====Policy is uniquely key on this topic==== |
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-**Taebi '11**, Taebi, Behnam. "Ethics of Nuclear Power: How to Understand Sustainability in the Nuclear Debate." NUCLEAR POWER–DEPLOYMENT, OPERATION AND SUSTAINABILITY (2011): 129.TF |
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-I presented the notion of sustainable development as a moral value and elaborated on its |
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-for the present generation. This paper aims to contribute to that awareness. |
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-====3) Topic lit – nuclear debate is about specific countries==== |
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-**WNA '15**, June 2015, "The Nuclear Debate," No Publication, http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/the-nuclear-debate.aspx |
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-Uranium mining and nuclear energy continue to be contentious issues involving both facts and ideology |
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-is site-specific rather than about uranium and nuclear energy as such. |
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-b) stable advocacy |
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-c) topic lit |
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-d) predictibility |
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-====And, there's a topical version of the aff that solves all your offense – just do insert aff here except spec a country==== |
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-====caselist of lost args==== |
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-====D. Voter: Education + Fairness ==== |
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-====drop the debater ==== |
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-====no RVIs==== |
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-====competing interpretations==== |