This will be the first in the series of posts about the potential Lincoln Douglas resolutions that high school debaters may be debating during the upcoming season and in September/October 2016. Coaches have until September 11, 2015 to vote.
This first post will just list the topics. Subsequent posts will give brief analyses of each resolution
A. The United States ought to promote democracy in the Middle East.
B. Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.
C. In the United States criminal justice system, jury nullification ought to be used in the face of perceived injustice.
D. Immigration ought to be recognized as a human right.
E. In the United States, campaigns that support candidates for public office ought to be financed exclusively by public funds.
F. Democracies ought to incorporate provisions for legal secession into their national constitutions.
G. The United States ought to adopt carbon pricing.
H. Corporations ought to value their responsibility to shareholders over the public interest when the two conflict.
I. The privatization of civil services undermines democracy.
J. In the United States, private ownership of handguns ought to be banned.
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