Tournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Seminole NL | Judge: Josh Aguilar
Constitution NC

Goodness can only be attributed through the function of an agent.
Smith 10 ON NORMATIVITY MICHAEL SMITH  2010
“Thomson argues for  ... a goodness-fixing kind.” (2)

ANALYTICS

And, we can only follow the constitutive rules of an institution, even if they interfere with the pragmatic or ultimate rules.
Terry Nardin 1992 3. ”. Review of International Studies 4. International Ethics and International Law 5. 1/30/2016 6. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20097279 7. Professor of Political Science at the University of Singapore and 8. 19-30
The first thing ... be set aside.

The Constitution serves as the constitutive rule governing all government actors.
Madison et al. US Constitution, Article VI.
This Constitution, and ... support this Constitution;

Thus, the sufficient negative burden is to prove that the affirmative is inconsistent with the constitution. Prefer-

1. Actor Specificity
   2. Verifiability

The Constitution’s Tenth Amendment outlines the balance of power for the United States.
Lawson and Shapiro Kaitlyn Ridel, “How efficient is your state legislature? Nearly all are more effective than Congress.” Mar 10, 2016 – FiscalNote.
by The Tenth Amendment’s simple ... government’s enumerated powers.

ANALYTICS

Positive rights are unconstitutional- overwhelming supreme court rulings agree.
Bajrami 13 “Negative Constitutional Rights in America versus Positive Constitutional Rights in Other Democratic Nations and Why Our System Should Not Change”. Seton Hall University, 2013.
Judicial opinions have ... father's violent tendencies. 

STATES CP

Counterplan Text Resolved: The 50 United States and Washington, D.C. should guarantee the right to housing.

States are capable of providing affordable housing, they just need to allocate more funding to do so.
Cooper ’14. Emily Cooper et. Al 3, Rachel Bergquist, Kevin Martone, and Melany Mondello,  April 2014, State Funded Housing Assistance programs, Technical Assistance Collaborative, http://www.tacinc.org/media/43566/State20Funded20Housing20Assistance20Report.pdf pg. 2
Following advances in ... their own challenges

SFHAPs target specific populations as opposed to a federal blanket policy.
Cooper 2. Emily Cooper et. Al 3, Rachel Bergquist, Kevin Martone, and Melany Mondello,  April 2014, State Funded Housing Assistance programs, Technical Assistance Collaborative, http://www.tacinc.org/media/43566/State20Funded20Housing20Assistance20Report.pdf pg. 2
Despite the amount ... serious mental illness.

SFHAPs allow residents to choose where they live based off their needs --- empirically proven with disabled individuals.
Cooper 3. Emily Cooper et. Al 3, Rachel Bergquist, Kevin Martone, and Melany Mondello,  April 2014, State Funded Housing Assistance programs, Technical Assistance Collaborative, http://www.tacinc.org/media/43566/State20Funded20Housing20Assistance20Report.pdf pg. 2
The majority of ... public housing units.

Radical policies like housing must be implemented at the state level before they can ever be considered on a national level, since states have more flexibility.
Judis 13 John B. Judis. July 16, 2013. “Federal Government Is More Powerful Than State Government.”
State governments are ... be expanded nationally.

Key to US competitiveness and power and accesses every impact
Calabresi 95 Steven Calabresi, Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University, 1995, 94 Mich. L. Rev. 752, l/n

b. Internationalist Federalism: Preventing ... its federal system.

Tournament: TFA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: Greenhill SK | Judge: Dohan Kim
Interpretation: The affirmative must defend a policy that guarantees a right to housing for all people unconditionally

Interpretation: The right to housing is a positive right.