2014-2015 Proposed NSDA Lincoln Douglas Debate Resolutions

Via NSD Update, the National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) has released its 10 proposed Lincoln Douglas debate resolutions for 2014-2015.

The NSDA will conduct voting through early September. Students will begin debating one of these resolutions in November, another in January, a third in March. One will be chosen for Nationals in June; the last resolution will be debated in September/October 2015.

1. The “right to be forgotten” from internet searches ought to be a civil right.
2. Just governments ought to ensure food security for their citizens.
3. Just governments ought to require that employers pay a living wage.
4. Sin taxes are just.
5. Historic preservation is a legitimate constraint on property rights.
6. United States foreign policy ought to value women’s rights over the pursuit of its economic interests when the two conflict.
7. Justice requires reparations to Black Americans.
8. Inaction in the face of injustice makes an individual morally culpable.
9. Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States should be subject to term limits.
10. Adolescents ought to have the right to make autonomous medical choices.