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Please use the 2020-2021 Home link for all specific 2020-2021 DEBATE CLASS information, although the other pages also contain useful information. Thanks! Kaz
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Current Topics
Policy Debate – 2020-2021 Topic
Resolved: The United States federal government should enact substantial criminal justice reform in the United States in one or more of the following: forensic science, policing, sentencing.
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate – Possible 2020-2021 Topics
September/October 2020
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NOVICE Lincoln-Douglas Debate -- The NOVICE topic lasts from September through November every year.
Resolved: Civil disobedience in a democracy is morally justified.
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Public Forum Debate – Possible 2020-2021 Topics
September/October 2020: Healthcare
Resolved: The United States federal government should enact substantial criminal justice reform in the United States in one or more of the following: forensic science, policing, sentencing.
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate – Possible 2020-2021 Topics
September/October 2020
- Resolved: The United States ought to adopt a proportional representation system for elections to the House of Representatives.
- Resolved: In a democracy, voting ought to be compulsory. <-- Actual Topic
- Resolved: Social media companies ought to be legally responsible for content posted by users on their platforms.
- Resolved: In the United States, workers ought to have the legal right to vote for representatives on corporate boards.
- Resolved: The United States ought to legalize adult sex work.
- Resolved: The United States ought to provide a federal jobs guarantee. <--Actual Topic
- Resolved: States ought to ban lethal autonomous weapons. <--Actual Topic
- Resolved: The United States ought to expand the application of the Public Trust Doctrine to wildlife habitats.
- Resolved: The United States ought to end its use of secondary sanctions on other countries.
- Resolved: The United States ought to guarantee universal child care. <--Actual Topic
- Resolved: The United States ought to recognize a positive right to reproduce.
- Resolved: Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising is unethical.
- Resolved: A wealth tax is just.
- Resolved: Sin taxes are unjust.
- Resolved: A public health emergency justifies limiting civil liberties.
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NOVICE Lincoln-Douglas Debate -- The NOVICE topic lasts from September through November every year.
Resolved: Civil disobedience in a democracy is morally justified.
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Public Forum Debate – Possible 2020-2021 Topics
September/October 2020: Healthcare
- Resolved: The United States federal government should enact the Medicare-For-All Act of 2019. <-- Actual Topic
- Resolved: On balance, centralized national responses to pandemics are more beneficial than decentralized responses.
- Resolved: The United States should adopt a declaratory nuclear policy of no first use. <-- Actual Topic
- Resolved: The United States should substantially modernize its nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) systems.
- Resolved: The NSA should end its surveillance of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents. <-- Actual Topic
- Resolved: The United States should establish a federal data protection agency.
- Resolved: On balance, the benefits of urbanization in West Africa outweigh the harms. <-- Actual Topic
- Resolved: Exclusive rights to the use of the Nile River are harmful to African stability.
- Resolved: Article IV of the Outer Space Treaty should be amended to ban anti-satellite weapons.
- Resolved: On balance, the benefits of creating the United States Space Force outweigh the harms. <-- Actual Topic
- Resolved: The benefits of the International Monetary Fund outweigh the harms.
- Resolved: On balance, cryptocurrency benefits emerging economies.
- Resolved: In the United States, social media is beneficial for democratic values.
- Resolved: The United States federal government should no longer apply Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to Big Tech.