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  • This house would ban prediction markets

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    Prediction markets are online markets that allow visitors to bet money on real-life events (eg. elections, political actions, wars). If their prediction is correct, they receive a monetary reward proportional to the risk of their prediction.

    Costeas-Geitonas School Debate Cup 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-11-01

  • This house supports the rise in civil disobedience within the EU

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    Civil disobedience is the nonviolent refusal to obey certain laws or commands of a government, often as a form of protest against perceived injustice. It aims to bring about change by highlighting the moral issues associated with specific laws or policies. Examples include Dutch farmers protesting by blocking roads, German climate protestors gluing themselves to the Munich airport runway, French students creating encampments on campuses, etc.

    DTU Pre-Worlds 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-01

  • In constituency electoral systems, This house would require the electoral representatives of a select number of constituencies to be laypeople

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    (i) Under a constituency electoral system, the composition of parliament following a national election depends on the outcome across voting areas (constituencies). Each constituency will have a number of candidates running for office, who may be members of political parties or independent (i.e. not affiliated with any political party). The candidate with the highest number of votes enters office as the electoral representative of that constituency. Examples of countries following the constituency electoral system are the United Kingdom, India, and Malaysia. (ii) For the purposes of the debate, a layperson is defined as an individual with no prior experience in politics (e.g. they have never held office, they have never worked in government).

    DTU Pre-Worlds 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-11-01

  • This House supports the rise of AI fact-interveners in online political discussions.

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    On the social-media platforms, AIs can interject directly into threads to clarify or fact-check claims made by users. It provides short, sourced explanations, flags factual errors, and keeps track of the conversation, offering context to both sides as the debate evolves.

    South Atlantic Debate Championship 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-01

  • This house believes that the CDU should abandon the cordon sanitaire against AfD

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    The CDU is Germany’s traditional governing party of the center-right, often compared to moderate conservative parties elsewhere in Europe. The AfD is a radical right populist party known for its nationalist, anti- immigration, and Eurosceptic positions. Cordon sanitaire in the German context refers to a strict refusal by all other parties to cooperate in any form or form any coalition with the AfD at any political level.

    Prague Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-01

  • This house supports the adoption of publicly-triggered recall elections for all elected offices

    Infoslide

    A recall election is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official's term of office has ended. This can be done directly, in which the recall is triggered by the public through means such as but not limited to petitions.

    SMU Novice Debating Championships 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-01

  • In democracies with one dominant political party, This house believes that it is in the interest of the opposition parties to prioritize value-driven advocacy (e.g. integrity, transparency, anti-corruption) rather than policy-driven advocacy (e.g. unemployment, education, the environment)

    Hit-U Intervarsity 2025 · Pre-Semifinals · 2025-11-01

  • This house believes that professional sports should adopt the athlete control model

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    In professional sports, athlete control is a hypothetical concept that allows for members of a team's active roster to have voting power in key operational decisions for the team (e.g. stadium construction, hiring/firing coaches, approving new ownership, etc.). In the athlete control model, the cumulative voting power of the team rosters would be a significant minority (roughly 40%) of the vote share.

    Yale Intervarsity 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-10-31

  • This House Believes That American Universities should attempt to correct the significant Liberal bias among professors.

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    Liberal professors outnumber conservative professors many times over in elite American universities. Nationwide, it is 6:1, increasing to 14:1 for the humanities, and 28:1 in the Northeast where many elite American universities are.

    Unity Cup 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-10-25

  • This house supports the use of 'political knifing' of the Visayas regions against the imperial Manila narrative

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    "Political knifing" can refer to the figurative use of damaging political tactics. Figuratively, it describes using political maneuvering, backstabbing, or sabotage to undermine opponents.

    3rd Visayas Novice Debate Cup · High School Semifinals · 2025-10-25

  • This House Opposes the recent West African coups

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    Since 2020, several countries in the Sahel region of West Africa including Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad have experienced military coups. These events have often followed public dissatisfaction with civilian governments due to economic hardship, the perceived failure to combat Islamist insurgencies, and French military, economic, and political influence. These new juntas have distanced themselves from France and have formed closer connections with Turkey, Russia, and The Wagner Group.

    Unity Cup 2025 · Semifinal · 2025-10-25

  • This house believes that Singapore should re-introduce the jury system for capital offences

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, the jury system refers to a sworn body of randomly selected adult citizens (jurors) in criminal courts who are convened to hear evidence, make findings of fact, and render an impartial verdict officially submitted to the court, or to set a penalty for the offender. The jury system was imported into Singapore under colonial rule. In 1960, Singapore restricted jury trial to capital offences (i.e., offences that are punishable by death), and abolished the system altogether in 1970.

    Institution of Business Administration Debating Championship 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-10-24

  • This house prefers a world where governments surrendered all decision-making to the Headband of Knowledge

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    The Headband of Knowledge is a machine that estimates the social benefit or harm of any proposed policy for each individual in society. It operates without bias toward a person's identity (e.g. class, race, gender, or social status) and is limited to domestic use, i.e. only one machine may be used per country. The Headband aggregates data and calculates the total pain/happiness generated per citizen per policy option. Each Headband can only be operated by the country’s head of state.

    Institution of Business Administration Debating Championship 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-10-24

  • In functional democracies, This house would grant courts the power to bar certain parties and/or candidates from running for office on the basis that them holding office would pose significant threats to democracy.

    Manila Pre-WUDC 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-10-24