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	1	+= AC – Democracy =
	2	+
	3	+== AC – Lay ==
	4	+
	5	+=== Framework ===
	6	+
	7	+==== The value of human freedom is a precondition to all other values, because the act of valuing itself presupposes freedom to value. The sphere of the government is derived from the constitutive force of free agreement from the general will of the population. Such conceptions stem from the natural value of human freedom. ====
	8	+~Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques. “The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right”. 1762. Translated by G.D.H Cole. Constitution Project~
	9	+
	10	+I SUPPOSE men people to have reached the point at which the obstacles in the way
	11	+
	12	+AND
	13	+
	14	+would be absurd, tyrannical, and liable to the most frightful abuse.
	15	+
	16	+==== If the sovereign does not respect the general will, then they exert power over and above the citizenry and the contract dissolves since something other than the collective contract would govern state action. ====
	17	+~Rousseau 2 Rousseau, Jean Jacques. “The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right”. 1762. Translated by G.D.H Cole. Constitution Project~
	18	+
	19	+I WARN the reader that this chapter requires careful reading, and that I am
	20	+
	21	+AND
	22	+
	23	+social union would evaporate instantly, and the body politic would be dissolved.
	24	+
	25	+==== The value criterion is consistency with procedural democracy. This differs from other social contracts by locating the grounding contract not between the sovereign and the people, but between the people themselves to construct a sovereign. ====
	26	+
	27	+==== Impact calc: ====
	28	+
	29	+==== A. analytic ====
	30	+
	31	+==== B. analytic ====
	32	+
	33	+==== C. analytic ====
	34	+
	35	+
	36	+=== Contention ===
	37	+
	38	+==== I contend that countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power because the nuclear power industry is inconsistent with procedural democracy. ====
	39	+
	40	+==== First, public exclusion, secrecy, and violation of procedural principles of democratic society are intrinsic to the nuclear industry today. Regulations cannot suffice—nuclear regulatory agencies are part of the problem—that means prohibiting the production of nuclear energy is necessary to ensure deliberative democracy. ====
	41	+~Kyne and Bolin 16 Dean Kyne Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Bob Bolin School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University “Emerging Environmental Justice Issues in Nuclear Power and Radioactive Contamination” Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13, 700; doi:10.3390/ijerph13070700 ~
	42	+
	43	+Public participation: While public participation and the right to know has been a hallmark
	44	+
	45	+AND
	46	+
	47	+the problems of distributive justice and procedural justice will not be adequately addressed.
	48	+
	49	+
	50	+==== Second, policy discussions about nuclear power production fail to include both the public and nuclear technocrats on a level playing field—India’s example provides three warrants. ====
	51	+~Bhadra 13 Bhadra, Monamie. "Fighting Nuclear Energy, Fighting for India's Democracy." Science as Culture 22.2 (2013): 238-246.~
	52	+
	53	+Now, those tactics are showing obsolescence as the nuclear establishment engages more substantively with
	54	+
	55	+AND
	56	+
	57	+the vote”. (quoting Chatterjee, 2004, p. 18)
	58	+
	59	+==== Third, prohibition is key—big nuclear has and will continue to manipulate policymakers and regulatory agencies to serve their interests—democracy requires a strong stance against the industry NOW. ====
	60	+~Brutoco and Austin 10 Rinaldo Brutoco and Madeleine Austin, "The Upcoming Nuclear Peril: Worse Than the BP Oil Disaster", Thursday, 01 July 2010 09:32, Rinaldo Brutoco is a well-known futurist and the founding president of the World Business Academy, a nonprofit think tank launched in 1987 with the mission to educate and inspire the business community to take responsibility for the whole of planetary society. He is a frequent public speaker and a prolific author on renewable energy, climate change and sustainable business strategies. He is the co-author of "Freedom from Mid-East Oil" (2007), a leading book on energy and climate change and "Profiles in Power" (1997), a college textbook on nuclear power and the dawn of the solar age. Madeleine Austin is vice president of the World Business Academy and a member of the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum. She is the co-author with Rinaldo Brutoco of "The Nuclear Nemesis" (ABA, Trends May/June 2008) and "The Nuclear Nemesis Redux" (Forum CSR International, Dec. 2008)., http://www.truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/90459:the-upcoming-nuclear-peril-worse-than-the-bp-oil-disaster~
	61	+
	62	+How many crises will it take? The recent destruction wrought by Big Finance and
	63	+
	64	+AND
	65	+
	66	+future for ourselves and future generations, we must act and act now.
	67	+
	68	+=== Underview ===
	69	+
	70	+==== Although the most important ethical consideration in the nuclear power debate is deliberative democracy, consequentialist reasons also support prohibiting nuclear power. ====
	71	+
	72	+==== Nukes are phasing out now—disadvantages from banning nuclear power occur in the negative world too. ====
	73	+~Penn and Masunaga 16 Ivan Penn and Samantha Masunaga, LA Times reporters, “PGandE to close Diablo Canyon, California's last nuclear power plant” 6-21-16, http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-diablo-canyon-nuclear-20160621-snap-story.html~
	74	+
	75	+In the mid-2000s, the nation’s utilities had anticipated a nuclear renaissance that
	76	+
	77	+AND
	78	+
	79	+cents a kilowatt hour compared with twice that much for a nuclear plant.
	80	+
	81	+==== Strong stance against the nuclear industry fosters a tech breakthrough in renewables. ====
	82	+~Ebinger 11, Dr. Charles Ebinger is a senior fellow and director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution and is a former senior adviser at the International Resources Group, where he advised governments on various aspects of their energy policies, quoted in “What Happens Next as the World Turns Away From Nuclear Power? A Freakonomics Quorum” Stephen J Dubner, Freakonomics Blog, http://freakonomics.com/2011/06/21/what-happens-next-as-the-world-turns-away-from-nuclear-power-a-freakonomics-quorum/~
	83	+
	84	+However, there is one lingering note of optimism. If the German and Japanese
	85	+
	86	+AND
	87	+
	88	+Swiss scientists and engineers may be nearly as unwise and could surprise us.
	89	+
	90	+==== And renewables shift happens—Germany proves. ====
	91	+~Shankleman 16 Shankleman, Jessica. Contributor, Bloomberg News “Germany Just Got Almost All of Its Power From Renewable Energy.” Bloomberg News, April 2016.~
	92	+
	93	+Clean power supplied almost all of Germany’s power demand for the first time on Sunday
	94	+
	95	+AND
	96	+
	97	+that can manage this oversupply ~-~- for example more interconnectors or energy storage.”
	98	+
	99	+==== Democracy allows endless moral improvement… ====
	100	+~Sen 03 Amartya Sen, "WHY DEMOCRATIZATION IS NOT THE SAME AS WESTERNIZATION. Democracy and Its Global Roots", The New Republic Online Post date: 09.25.03 Issue date: 10.06.03~
	101	+
	102	+The value of public reasoning applies to reasoning about democracy itself. It is good
	103	+
	104	+AND
	105	+
	106	+Sudan or Afghanistan, or more like South Korea than like North Korea.
	107	+
	108	+==== Nuke power collapses the grid ====
	109	+~Pedraza 12 Jorge Morales Pedraza, consultant on international affairs, ambassador to the IAEA for 26 yrs, degree in math and economy sciences, former professor, Energy Science, Engineering and Technology : Nuclear Power: Current and Future Role in the World Electricity Generation : Current and Future Role in the World Electricity Generation, New York. Bob~
	110	+
	111	+Finally, it is important to single out the following. In addition to assuring
	112	+
	113	+AND
	114	+
	115	+and frequency, or even to the collapse of the power electric grid.

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	1	+Wesley Hu

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	1	+Walt Whitman RobertsGaal Aff

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	1	+SO16 AC - Democracy

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	1	+Beltway