Here are the final 10 topics that will head into tomorrows vote to reduce to 5 resolutions for the first national ballot. I am the author of both Supreme Court and Infrastructure.
Presidential Authority:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce the authority of the President of the United States in one or more of the following areas: weapons of mass destruction, immigration, indefinite detention.
Civil Rights:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its civil rights protection in the United States in one or more of the following areas: indefinite detention, housing, voting rights.
Poverty:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase funding and/or eligibility for one or more of the following: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicaid enrollment, Housing Choice Vouchers Program.
Healthcare:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially expand eligibility and/or coverage for its Medicare and/or Medicaid programs.
Immigration Reform:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its restrictions on legal immigration to the United States.
Food Security:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its regulation of one or more of the following in the United States: genetically modified foods, biofuels, pesticides, concentrated animal feeding operations, crop insurance.
Police Reform:
Resolved: The United States federal government should implement substantial nationwide limitation on local law enforcement agencies in the United States of one or more of the following: use of force, profiling, military technology.
Critical Infrastructure:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase the protection and/or resiliency of one or more of the following Critical Infrastructure Sectors in the United States: Communications; Emergency Services; Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste; Water and Wastewater Systems.
Election Reform:
Resolved: The United States should adopt substantial nationwide reform of its federal elections in one or more of the following areas: campaign finance, Electoral College, redistricting, right to vote.
Supreme Court:
Resolved: The Supreme Court of the United States should overrule one of the following decisions:
• Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984)
• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld 542 U.S. 507 (2004)
• Kelo v. City of New London 545 U.S. 469 (2005)
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 558 U.S. 310 (2010)
• Shelby County v. Holder 570 U.S. 2 (2013)
Presidential Authority:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce the authority of the President of the United States in one or more of the following areas: weapons of mass destruction, immigration, indefinite detention.
Civil Rights:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its civil rights protection in the United States in one or more of the following areas: indefinite detention, housing, voting rights.
Poverty:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase funding and/or eligibility for one or more of the following: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicaid enrollment, Housing Choice Vouchers Program.
Healthcare:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially expand eligibility and/or coverage for its Medicare and/or Medicaid programs.
Immigration Reform:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its restrictions on legal immigration to the United States.
Food Security:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its regulation of one or more of the following in the United States: genetically modified foods, biofuels, pesticides, concentrated animal feeding operations, crop insurance.
Police Reform:
Resolved: The United States federal government should implement substantial nationwide limitation on local law enforcement agencies in the United States of one or more of the following: use of force, profiling, military technology.
Critical Infrastructure:
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase the protection and/or resiliency of one or more of the following Critical Infrastructure Sectors in the United States: Communications; Emergency Services; Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste; Water and Wastewater Systems.
Election Reform:
Resolved: The United States should adopt substantial nationwide reform of its federal elections in one or more of the following areas: campaign finance, Electoral College, redistricting, right to vote.
Supreme Court:
Resolved: The Supreme Court of the United States should overrule one of the following decisions:
• Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984)
• Hamdi v. Rumsfeld 542 U.S. 507 (2004)
• Kelo v. City of New London 545 U.S. 469 (2005)
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 558 U.S. 310 (2010)
• Shelby County v. Holder 570 U.S. 2 (2013)