Here are the notes on all of the discussions from today's General wording meeting session:
Lethal Force
The United States federal government should substantially curtail its lethal use of force in foreign countries.
-Force is more appropriate than weapons to separate out arms sales.
-Change to deadly force and/or use of lethal force
-DoD defines deadly force shows up a lot, but they are both used around police practices, but DOD uses deadly in context
New wording
The United States federal government should substantially curtail its use of deadly force in foreign countries.
-Cort, we need to look for a geographic limiter or weapons systems
-Like threat of use etc.
-I ask the question about war powers or NFU as things that fall under the topic
-Author does not want geographic, wants specific
-My suggestion was use of military force
-no response
-Could we insert the word current?
-Someone wants to insert “one or more foreign countries”
A new change:
(Final Wording)The United States federal government should substantially curtail its use of deadly force in other countries.
No callback
International Organizations
The United States federal government should substantially increase its material support to one or more of the following: United Nations Environmental Programme, World Bank, World Health Organization.
-I hate the phrase “material support” because it is about terrorism
-Brian points out the past UN topic, was just support
-Endpoint “support of”
New wording: The United States federal government should substantially increase its support of one or more of the following: United Nations Environmental Programme, World Bank, World Health Organization.
-Should we get rid of the other “of one or more of” and insert and and/or
New wording: The United States federal government should substantially increase its support of: United Nations Environmental Programme, World Bank, and/or World Health Organization.
-World bank vs world bank group
-Development (WB) vs Development and corporate investment (WBG)
-Should we get rid of the colon?
-Yep
New wording: The United States federal government should substantially increase its support of the United Nations Environmental Programme, the World Bank, and/or the World Health Organization.
Minor mod, eliminate al from unep
New wording: The United States federal government should substantially increase its support of the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Bank, and/or the World Health Organization.
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States should overturn one or more of the following: Ex Parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942), Zivotofsky v. Kerry, 576 U.S. ___ (2015), Zivotofsky v. Clinton, 566 U.S. 189 (2012), Medellín v. Texas, 552 U.S. 491 (2008), United States v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655 (1992) or Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004).
Or…
The Supreme Court of the United States should overturn one or more of its decisions in one or more of the following areas: unlawful enemy combatants, enforcement of treaties, customary international law, extraterritorial application of United States law.
-MS thought list of cases better, but we think the voting public might like the list better
-Pam: Likes the case areas better than the case list
-I agree, and talk about hiding a vegetables
The committee votes on the second choice
New wording:
The Supreme Court of the United States should overturn one or more of its decisions in one or more of the following areas: unlawful enemy combatants, enforcement of treaties, customary international law, extraterritorial application of United States law.
-do we want to get rid of the second one or more of?
The Supreme Court of the United States should overturn one or more of its decisions in at least one of the following areas: unlawful enemy combatants, enforcement of treaties, customary international law, extraterritorial application of United States law.
-------------Break
The Arctic
The United States federal government should substantially increase its support for international cooperation on sustainable development in the Arctic.
-Cort would be ok with a topic that includes the military, Ruth agrees
-Do we want to take out sustainable
-Do we want the ecological tilt or not?
New wording: The United States federal government should substantially increase its support for international cooperation in the Arctic.
Human Trafficking
The United States federal government should substantially increase its anti-human-trafficking assistance to Southeast Asia.
Author proposes alternate wording:
The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic and/or economic pressure to reduce human trafficking in one or more of the following: Germany, Republic of Korea, Syria, India, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Democratic Republic of Korea, Russia, and/or China.
-Author
-Didn’t like southeast asia because it excludes places like india and other disadvantage ground, because we don’t care about some negative responses from countries but we do for others.
-This uses the TVPA and tiers from countries on different areas of the list
-Do we need to have official names of all countries
-Sam: Do we like the word pressure?
-Sam: Could we do just Asia?
We went with the author’s wording.
-But there is a callback at 2:30
Here is where we start with for the callback
The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic and/or economic pressure to reduce human trafficking in one or more of the following: Germany, Republic of Korea, Syria, India, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Democratic Republic of Korea, Russia, and/or China.
She proposes
The United States federal government should substantially increase its anti-human-trafficking diplomatic and/or economic aid toward one or more of the following: Germany, India, People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
-My suggestion would be the top half of resolution 1 and the countries from resolution 2: (pam makes this a motion)
The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic and/or economic pressure to reduce human trafficking in one or more of the following: Germany, India, People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
That fails……..
So stephanie proposes:
The United States federal government should implement and enforce anti-human trafficking trade sanctions against one or more of the following: Germany, India, People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
-Discussion about whether or not sanctions can be topically lifted
-Proposal to remove trade from the list (susan)
Now playing with this---in addition to the first two
The United States federal government should implement and enforce anti-human-trafficking sanctions against one or more of the following: Germany, India, People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
-Cort hates this resolution because sanctions are problematic, agrees there is a good topic area here, but it is hard to create wording around it…...
-There is a motion to now remove implement and-enforce and replace with substantially increase…
-The United States federal government should substantially increase anti-human-trafficking sanctions against one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
And now get rid of anti-
The United States federal government should substantially increase sanctions against human trafficking sanctions in or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
And now change it to sanctions-against (that fails)
The United States federal government should substantially increase human trafficking sanctions against one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
The room now votes to attempt to go from 3 topics down to 1
Official working tording now
The United States federal government should substantially increase human trafficking sanctions against one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
We now go back to sanctions against
The United States federal government should substantially increase sanctions against human trafficking in one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
I have a problem with in…it should be either on or toward. Pam suggests toward, cort disagrees and says on
-Toward fails
-they vote on on, on passes
The United States federal government should substantially increase sanctions against human trafficking on one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
Do we need an its?
-Cort says no, if the aff says other countries or UN, that’s cool…..
-it gets proposed
-it fails
Final wording:
The United States federal government should substantially increase sanctions against human trafficking on one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
Russia
The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic engagement, economic engagement, and/or military engagement with the Russian Federation.
Author’s comments
-do we need all three forms of engagement in the topic?
-Are there bidirectionality issues?
-Cort, we don’t need the word engagement three times
The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic, economic, and/or military engagement with the Russian Federation.
-Me--don’t confuse a limiting mechanism with a limiting of areas
-Brian’s suggestion, get rid of diplomatic
-It passes
The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic and/or military engagement with the Russian Federation.
--Final wording
----Break
Nuclear Weapons Strategy
The United States federal government should establish a policy substantially changing its nuclear weapons strategy.
Cort-should we substantially change nuclear weapons (eliminate establish a policy)
New wording
The United States federal government should substantially change its nuclear weapons strategy.
-Can we move beyond strategy?
-More/less are those part of strategy
-We are OK with change in this instance since it is more limited in the area of nuclear weapons strategy
-What is non-T counterplan ground?
-Consult X and crickets…..
-Had a good conversation with the author at lunch and some of my concerns are minimized
-Is this a domestic topic
-Looking at the phrase strategy, yes but its not the intent….
Final answer:
The United States federal government should substantially change its nuclear weapons strategy.
No callback
Cryptocurrency
The International Monetary Fund should lead the G-20 in a coordinated response to cryptocurrency regulations.
Author (Eric by Proxy)
-what can the IMF do?
-should establish binding regulations of cryptocurrencies
New proposal:
The International Monetary Fund should establish binding regulations of cryptocurrencies.
-Is there enough lit to sustain an entire year of this?
-Yes, its happening everyday
-They are meeting in november….there is a potential for inherency to be undermined
-My suggestion is we should have a list of things based on cryptocurrencies and just not the currency itself
-There is some agreement of looking at a list, but there was some stalling.
Sam: Do they have the ability to create binding regulations
-Rich: the aff gives them the power to do so.
-Others in the room, say they can offer suggestions, but countries have to opt in
Me: can we get rid of the word binding
-They vote to adopt the second resolution, and remove the word binding
New wording: The International Monetary Fund should establish regulations of cryptocurrencies.
-I beg the group to give this a callback
-they then vote on getting rid of the s on regulations
New wording: The International Monetary Fund should establish regulation of cryptocurrencies.
-The callback fails, the final wording passes
Treaties
The United States federal government should ratify or accede to, and implement, one or more of the following: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Trans-Pacific Partnership, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
-My suggestion, get rid of the Disabilities treaty, and then look at replacing
New wording
The United States federal government should ratify or accede to, and implement, one or more of the following: Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Trans-Pacific Partnership, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
-Passes with 4
Arms Sales
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce direct commercial and/or foreign military sales of arms from the United States.
-Both should be Capitalized
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce Direct Commercial Sales and/or Foreign Military Sales of arms from the United States.
--Break for lunch, be back at 1
India
The United States federal government should substantially increase its development and/or military assistance to the Republic of India.
-Cort: Should the topic be intergovernmental aid or not?
-Military should be governmental
-Does DA to non-governmental authorities explode the topic list, maybe not.
-Rich: India is trying to change to being a giver of DA and not a recipient
-We can look at things like dutch disease and rent seeking
Author-Really is tied to assistance more than anything else
-There is a discussion about development and the links to the K argument
-Is legislating it into the topic bad?
-Economic assistance or Humanitarian Aid or Foreign Aid….are those other instances
-I argue that we are trading fear of the K for a less limiting term to read an aff that reps still links to the K
Topic accepted as written.
Water
The United States federal government should substantially increase its aid to improve water resources in one or more of the Least Developed Countries in Asia and/or Oceania.
Alternative wording:
The United States federal government should substantially increase its water resource management aid to one or more of the following countries: Egypt, Iraq, Niger, Pakistan, Somalia, and/or Sudan.
Author
-She wants to include Africa because it is much more important
-Their def of LDC is not crucial to water, but water resource management aid is
Me
-I suggest changing aid to assistance, deleting countries and inserting a colon, and eliminating the oxford comma.
-Who writes about US action?
-What does neg ground look like?
-should resource(s) be
Committee moves to play with the new wording:
The United States federal government should substantially increase its water resource management aid to one or more of the following countries: Egypt, Iraq, Niger, Pakistan, Somalia, and/or Sudan.
-Change resources to s,
-Integrated seems to be a more narrow subset of WRM, because IWRM has a bigger subset to play with, and WRM allows you to develop a more specific strategy for each country
-Get rid of the and/or
Next batch of changes:
The United States federal government should substantially increase its water resource management assistance to one or more of the following: Egypt, Iraq, Niger, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan.
Middle East
The United States federal government should substantially increase its development assistance toward one or more of the following countries: Iran, Saudi Arabia and/or Syria.
-Author: we should change development assistance
-Colton’s alternative: Foreign Aid
-My Alternative: Constructive Engagment
Committee moves to change the topic to:
The United States federal government should substantially increase its constructive engagement toward one or more of the following countries: Iran, Saudi Arabia and/or Syria.
Now a discussion of with vs toward, fails
Now a discussion of taking the word countries out and and/or:--Passes
The United States federal government should substantially increase its constructive engagement toward one or more of the following: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria.
With/toward
-this debate literally lasts 10 minutes, it passes to eliminate toward
The United States federal government should substantially increase its constructive engagement with one or more of the following: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria.
Final Slate of topics headed into Sunday that pass the straw poll:---All 13 pass….. (with notes)
Lethal Force
The United States federal government should substantially curtail its use of deadly force in other countries.
International Organizations
The United States federal government should substantially increase its support of one or more of the following: United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank, World Health Organization.
-do we need to get rid of the comma
-Sam, suggests add one or more of the following and strike and/or
-Tim does not like lists of 3
-Stephanie requests the removing the “the’s” after the comma
-the posted wording is the now correct
Supreme Court and Foreign Policy
The Supreme Court of the United States should overturn one or more of its decisions in at least one of the following areas: unlawful enemy combatants, enforcement of treaties, customary international law, extraterritorial application of United States law.
Arctic
The United States federal government should substantially increase its support of international cooperation in the Arctic.
-I ask about support for vs support of
-Move it, and it passes
Human Trafficking
The United States federal government should substantially increase sanctions against human trafficking on one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
Russia
The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic and/or military engagement with the Russian Federation.
Nuclear Weapons
The United States federal government should substantially change its nuclear weapons strategy.
Cryptocurrencies
The International Monetary Fund should establish regulation of cryptocurrencies.
-There is a motion to include substantial before regulation
-The lawyers say it is not a thing
-it fails
Treaties
The United States federal government should ratify or accede to, and implement, one or more of the following: Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Trans-Pacific Partnership, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
-There are questions about what to do with commas
-ratify, or accede to, and implement is the suggestion, the college topic
Arms Sales
The United States federal government should substantially reduce Direct Commercial Sales and/or Foreign Military of arms from the United States.
India
The United States federal government should substantially increase its development and/or military assistance to the Republic of India
Water
The United States federal government should substantially increase its water resources management assistance to one or more of the following: Egypt, Iraq, Niger, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan.
Middle East
The United States federal government should substantially increase its constructive engagement with one or more of the following: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan.
Lethal Force
The United States federal government should substantially curtail its lethal use of force in foreign countries.
-Force is more appropriate than weapons to separate out arms sales.
-Change to deadly force and/or use of lethal force
-DoD defines deadly force shows up a lot, but they are both used around police practices, but DOD uses deadly in context
New wording
The United States federal government should substantially curtail its use of deadly force in foreign countries.
-Cort, we need to look for a geographic limiter or weapons systems
-Like threat of use etc.
-I ask the question about war powers or NFU as things that fall under the topic
-Author does not want geographic, wants specific
-My suggestion was use of military force
-no response
-Could we insert the word current?
-Someone wants to insert “one or more foreign countries”
A new change:
(Final Wording)The United States federal government should substantially curtail its use of deadly force in other countries.
No callback
International Organizations
The United States federal government should substantially increase its material support to one or more of the following: United Nations Environmental Programme, World Bank, World Health Organization.
-I hate the phrase “material support” because it is about terrorism
-Brian points out the past UN topic, was just support
-Endpoint “support of”
New wording: The United States federal government should substantially increase its support of one or more of the following: United Nations Environmental Programme, World Bank, World Health Organization.
-Should we get rid of the other “of one or more of” and insert and and/or
New wording: The United States federal government should substantially increase its support of: United Nations Environmental Programme, World Bank, and/or World Health Organization.
-World bank vs world bank group
-Development (WB) vs Development and corporate investment (WBG)
-Should we get rid of the colon?
-Yep
New wording: The United States federal government should substantially increase its support of the United Nations Environmental Programme, the World Bank, and/or the World Health Organization.
Minor mod, eliminate al from unep
New wording: The United States federal government should substantially increase its support of the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Bank, and/or the World Health Organization.
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States should overturn one or more of the following: Ex Parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942), Zivotofsky v. Kerry, 576 U.S. ___ (2015), Zivotofsky v. Clinton, 566 U.S. 189 (2012), Medellín v. Texas, 552 U.S. 491 (2008), United States v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655 (1992) or Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004).
Or…
The Supreme Court of the United States should overturn one or more of its decisions in one or more of the following areas: unlawful enemy combatants, enforcement of treaties, customary international law, extraterritorial application of United States law.
-MS thought list of cases better, but we think the voting public might like the list better
-Pam: Likes the case areas better than the case list
-I agree, and talk about hiding a vegetables
The committee votes on the second choice
New wording:
The Supreme Court of the United States should overturn one or more of its decisions in one or more of the following areas: unlawful enemy combatants, enforcement of treaties, customary international law, extraterritorial application of United States law.
-do we want to get rid of the second one or more of?
The Supreme Court of the United States should overturn one or more of its decisions in at least one of the following areas: unlawful enemy combatants, enforcement of treaties, customary international law, extraterritorial application of United States law.
-------------Break
The Arctic
The United States federal government should substantially increase its support for international cooperation on sustainable development in the Arctic.
-Cort would be ok with a topic that includes the military, Ruth agrees
-Do we want to take out sustainable
-Do we want the ecological tilt or not?
New wording: The United States federal government should substantially increase its support for international cooperation in the Arctic.
Human Trafficking
The United States federal government should substantially increase its anti-human-trafficking assistance to Southeast Asia.
Author proposes alternate wording:
The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic and/or economic pressure to reduce human trafficking in one or more of the following: Germany, Republic of Korea, Syria, India, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Democratic Republic of Korea, Russia, and/or China.
-Author
-Didn’t like southeast asia because it excludes places like india and other disadvantage ground, because we don’t care about some negative responses from countries but we do for others.
-This uses the TVPA and tiers from countries on different areas of the list
-Do we need to have official names of all countries
-Sam: Do we like the word pressure?
-Sam: Could we do just Asia?
We went with the author’s wording.
-But there is a callback at 2:30
Here is where we start with for the callback
The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic and/or economic pressure to reduce human trafficking in one or more of the following: Germany, Republic of Korea, Syria, India, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Democratic Republic of Korea, Russia, and/or China.
She proposes
The United States federal government should substantially increase its anti-human-trafficking diplomatic and/or economic aid toward one or more of the following: Germany, India, People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
-My suggestion would be the top half of resolution 1 and the countries from resolution 2: (pam makes this a motion)
The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic and/or economic pressure to reduce human trafficking in one or more of the following: Germany, India, People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
That fails……..
So stephanie proposes:
The United States federal government should implement and enforce anti-human trafficking trade sanctions against one or more of the following: Germany, India, People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
-Discussion about whether or not sanctions can be topically lifted
-Proposal to remove trade from the list (susan)
Now playing with this---in addition to the first two
The United States federal government should implement and enforce anti-human-trafficking sanctions against one or more of the following: Germany, India, People’s Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
-Cort hates this resolution because sanctions are problematic, agrees there is a good topic area here, but it is hard to create wording around it…...
-There is a motion to now remove implement and-enforce and replace with substantially increase…
-The United States federal government should substantially increase anti-human-trafficking sanctions against one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
And now get rid of anti-
The United States federal government should substantially increase sanctions against human trafficking sanctions in or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
And now change it to sanctions-against (that fails)
The United States federal government should substantially increase human trafficking sanctions against one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
The room now votes to attempt to go from 3 topics down to 1
Official working tording now
The United States federal government should substantially increase human trafficking sanctions against one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
We now go back to sanctions against
The United States federal government should substantially increase sanctions against human trafficking in one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
I have a problem with in…it should be either on or toward. Pam suggests toward, cort disagrees and says on
-Toward fails
-they vote on on, on passes
The United States federal government should substantially increase sanctions against human trafficking on one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
Do we need an its?
-Cort says no, if the aff says other countries or UN, that’s cool…..
-it gets proposed
-it fails
Final wording:
The United States federal government should substantially increase sanctions against human trafficking on one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
Russia
The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic engagement, economic engagement, and/or military engagement with the Russian Federation.
Author’s comments
-do we need all three forms of engagement in the topic?
-Are there bidirectionality issues?
-Cort, we don’t need the word engagement three times
The United States federal government should substantially increase its diplomatic, economic, and/or military engagement with the Russian Federation.
-Me--don’t confuse a limiting mechanism with a limiting of areas
-Brian’s suggestion, get rid of diplomatic
-It passes
The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic and/or military engagement with the Russian Federation.
--Final wording
----Break
Nuclear Weapons Strategy
The United States federal government should establish a policy substantially changing its nuclear weapons strategy.
Cort-should we substantially change nuclear weapons (eliminate establish a policy)
New wording
The United States federal government should substantially change its nuclear weapons strategy.
-Can we move beyond strategy?
-More/less are those part of strategy
-We are OK with change in this instance since it is more limited in the area of nuclear weapons strategy
-What is non-T counterplan ground?
-Consult X and crickets…..
-Had a good conversation with the author at lunch and some of my concerns are minimized
-Is this a domestic topic
-Looking at the phrase strategy, yes but its not the intent….
Final answer:
The United States federal government should substantially change its nuclear weapons strategy.
No callback
Cryptocurrency
The International Monetary Fund should lead the G-20 in a coordinated response to cryptocurrency regulations.
Author (Eric by Proxy)
-what can the IMF do?
-should establish binding regulations of cryptocurrencies
New proposal:
The International Monetary Fund should establish binding regulations of cryptocurrencies.
-Is there enough lit to sustain an entire year of this?
-Yes, its happening everyday
-They are meeting in november….there is a potential for inherency to be undermined
-My suggestion is we should have a list of things based on cryptocurrencies and just not the currency itself
-There is some agreement of looking at a list, but there was some stalling.
Sam: Do they have the ability to create binding regulations
-Rich: the aff gives them the power to do so.
-Others in the room, say they can offer suggestions, but countries have to opt in
Me: can we get rid of the word binding
-They vote to adopt the second resolution, and remove the word binding
New wording: The International Monetary Fund should establish regulations of cryptocurrencies.
-I beg the group to give this a callback
-they then vote on getting rid of the s on regulations
New wording: The International Monetary Fund should establish regulation of cryptocurrencies.
-The callback fails, the final wording passes
Treaties
The United States federal government should ratify or accede to, and implement, one or more of the following: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Trans-Pacific Partnership, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
-My suggestion, get rid of the Disabilities treaty, and then look at replacing
New wording
The United States federal government should ratify or accede to, and implement, one or more of the following: Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Trans-Pacific Partnership, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
-Passes with 4
Arms Sales
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce direct commercial and/or foreign military sales of arms from the United States.
-Both should be Capitalized
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce Direct Commercial Sales and/or Foreign Military Sales of arms from the United States.
--Break for lunch, be back at 1
India
The United States federal government should substantially increase its development and/or military assistance to the Republic of India.
-Cort: Should the topic be intergovernmental aid or not?
-Military should be governmental
-Does DA to non-governmental authorities explode the topic list, maybe not.
-Rich: India is trying to change to being a giver of DA and not a recipient
-We can look at things like dutch disease and rent seeking
Author-Really is tied to assistance more than anything else
-There is a discussion about development and the links to the K argument
-Is legislating it into the topic bad?
-Economic assistance or Humanitarian Aid or Foreign Aid….are those other instances
-I argue that we are trading fear of the K for a less limiting term to read an aff that reps still links to the K
Topic accepted as written.
Water
The United States federal government should substantially increase its aid to improve water resources in one or more of the Least Developed Countries in Asia and/or Oceania.
Alternative wording:
The United States federal government should substantially increase its water resource management aid to one or more of the following countries: Egypt, Iraq, Niger, Pakistan, Somalia, and/or Sudan.
Author
-She wants to include Africa because it is much more important
-Their def of LDC is not crucial to water, but water resource management aid is
Me
-I suggest changing aid to assistance, deleting countries and inserting a colon, and eliminating the oxford comma.
-Who writes about US action?
-What does neg ground look like?
-should resource(s) be
Committee moves to play with the new wording:
The United States federal government should substantially increase its water resource management aid to one or more of the following countries: Egypt, Iraq, Niger, Pakistan, Somalia, and/or Sudan.
-Change resources to s,
-Integrated seems to be a more narrow subset of WRM, because IWRM has a bigger subset to play with, and WRM allows you to develop a more specific strategy for each country
-Get rid of the and/or
Next batch of changes:
The United States federal government should substantially increase its water resource management assistance to one or more of the following: Egypt, Iraq, Niger, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan.
Middle East
The United States federal government should substantially increase its development assistance toward one or more of the following countries: Iran, Saudi Arabia and/or Syria.
-Author: we should change development assistance
-Colton’s alternative: Foreign Aid
-My Alternative: Constructive Engagment
Committee moves to change the topic to:
The United States federal government should substantially increase its constructive engagement toward one or more of the following countries: Iran, Saudi Arabia and/or Syria.
Now a discussion of with vs toward, fails
Now a discussion of taking the word countries out and and/or:--Passes
The United States federal government should substantially increase its constructive engagement toward one or more of the following: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria.
With/toward
-this debate literally lasts 10 minutes, it passes to eliminate toward
The United States federal government should substantially increase its constructive engagement with one or more of the following: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria.
Final Slate of topics headed into Sunday that pass the straw poll:---All 13 pass….. (with notes)
Lethal Force
The United States federal government should substantially curtail its use of deadly force in other countries.
International Organizations
The United States federal government should substantially increase its support of one or more of the following: United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank, World Health Organization.
-do we need to get rid of the comma
-Sam, suggests add one or more of the following and strike and/or
-Tim does not like lists of 3
-Stephanie requests the removing the “the’s” after the comma
-the posted wording is the now correct
Supreme Court and Foreign Policy
The Supreme Court of the United States should overturn one or more of its decisions in at least one of the following areas: unlawful enemy combatants, enforcement of treaties, customary international law, extraterritorial application of United States law.
Arctic
The United States federal government should substantially increase its support of international cooperation in the Arctic.
-I ask about support for vs support of
-Move it, and it passes
Human Trafficking
The United States federal government should substantially increase sanctions against human trafficking on one or more of the following: Germany, India, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia.
Russia
The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic and/or military engagement with the Russian Federation.
Nuclear Weapons
The United States federal government should substantially change its nuclear weapons strategy.
Cryptocurrencies
The International Monetary Fund should establish regulation of cryptocurrencies.
-There is a motion to include substantial before regulation
-The lawyers say it is not a thing
-it fails
Treaties
The United States federal government should ratify or accede to, and implement, one or more of the following: Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Trans-Pacific Partnership, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
-There are questions about what to do with commas
-ratify, or accede to, and implement is the suggestion, the college topic
Arms Sales
The United States federal government should substantially reduce Direct Commercial Sales and/or Foreign Military of arms from the United States.
India
The United States federal government should substantially increase its development and/or military assistance to the Republic of India
Water
The United States federal government should substantially increase its water resources management assistance to one or more of the following: Egypt, Iraq, Niger, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan.
Middle East
The United States federal government should substantially increase its constructive engagement with one or more of the following: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan.