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  • This house supports the Constitutional Court's decision to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol in South Korea

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    The National Assembly impeached Yoon in January 2025. The Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment on April 4, 2025, officially removing him from office. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo became acting president, and a new election is scheduled for the 3rd of June."

    Ateneo Debate Open Pre-UADC 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-04-12

  • This house believes that progressive news media should push the narrative of state capture in the United States.

    Infoslide

    State capture is a type of systemic political corruption in which private interests significantly influence a state's decision-making processes to their own advantage.

    Colgate Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-04-12

  • This house believes that progressive social movements should heavily prioritize non-state based solutions.

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this round, non-state solutions are solutions which actively circumvent state apparatuses wherever possible. (e.g. 2nd wave feminists funding the pill, the Black Panthers doing school breakfast and lunches, modern day mutual aid and bail funds, etc)

    Colgate Open 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-04-12

  • This House Believes That the entity to which the AI is ultimately answerable ought to be a jury of randomly selected ordinary people rather than a panel of the three most intelligent moral philosophers in the world.

    Infoslide

    In the near future, humankind has developed a super-intelligent Artificial Intelligence (AI) system in order to rule over humanity. The AI has undergone rigorous alignment training to ensure that its incentives are aligned with the values and interests of the human race as a whole. The AI possesses the capability to solve many coordination problems and other issues that currently trouble human governments. The AI will be programmed such that it is at the top of most chains of command in the world. However, there will be one entity to which the AI is ultimately answerable. This entity has the power to decide on what to do in lieu of the AI in the event that there exists a profound moral quandary that the entity determines the AI is unable to properly address. It also has the ability to shut down the AI system. For the purposes of this debate, assume that all governments have consented to be subordinate to the AI and that it can effectively govern the human race.

    Glasgow Ancients 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-04-11

  • This House Supports the US Democratic Party prioritising the nomination, at all levels of government, of candidates who favour more radical changes to existing policies and structures over more moderate candidates.

    Glasgow Ancients 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-04-11

  • This house would trade the blue sky for a green Earth

    Infoslide

    To “trade the blue sky for a green Earth” is to establish a neutral global eco-authoritarian regime with the goal of significantly reducing and reversing environmental damage. Such actions may include periodic lockdowns (similar to COVID-19), stratospheric atmosphere injections to block out a portion of the sun’s light (thereby dimming the sky), and other geoengineering or bioengineering methods to maintain ecological balance. These measures can be implemented without the consent of individuals or nations, are neutral across all countries, cultures and ethnicities, and may compromise all rights except the right to life

    BITS Pilani Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-04-11

  • This House Prefers a World where ECOWAS follows the doctrine of effective control.

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, when there is a dispute over the leadership of a state, there are two approaches that other states can take to decide who they may militarily intervene at the request and in favour of. (1) Under the doctrine of **effective control** , the relevant leadership of a state (who other states may militarily intervene at the request and in favour of) is who _de facto_ controls the territory of the state, even if they were not democratically elected (e.g. a military coup). Most countries and international organisations follow the doctrine of effective control. (2) In contrast, under the doctrine of **democratic legitimacy** , the relevant leadership of a state is who was democratically elected by the people of that state, even if they are in exile and/or control no territory. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) follows the doctrine of democratic legitimacy. Accordingly, ECOWAS has militarily intervened against military coups in favour of democratically elected governments in member states on many occasions (e.g. Liberia in 1990, Sierra Leone in 1997, and The Gambia in 2016).

    Glasgow Ancients 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-04-11

  • This house prefers states emerging from ethnic conflict to adopt policies of ethnic non-recognition, rather than ethnic recognition.

    Infoslide

    In post- conflict states, ethnic recognition is an approach which makes specific provisions in post-conflict constitutions, political settlements and institutions based on ethnicity (e.g. specific quotas, rights, or symbolic clauses). Examples include Burundi and Ethiopia. By comparison, ethnic non-recognition involves removing public references to ethnicity, including from identity documents, textbooks and public life. This approach was taken in Rwanda, where ethnicity can only be discussed during an annual remembrance period for the victims of genocide.

    Beijing International Debate Open 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-04-09

  • This house prefers the lottery voting system over the majority voting system in the United States.

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    The United States currently employs a majority voting system for its legislative branch, For the House of Representatives elections, the candidate with the most votes in each of the 435 congressional districts wins a seat. For the Senate elections, the candidate with the most votes in the entire state wins a seat. In a lottery voting system, winners would be chosen randomly, but candidates with more votes would have a better chance of winning. Only candidates who get at least 5% of the vote can be in the lottery. For example, if Candidate A gets 200 votes, Candidate B gets 800 votes, and Candidate C gets 5 votes, then only A and B qualify. A would have a 20%chance of winning while B will have a 80% chance of winning.

    Beijing International Debate Open 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-04-09

  • This House Believes That it is in the interest of Georgian government to democratically backslide

    Infoslide

    Democratic backsliding is a process of regime change toward autocracy in which the votes of individuals have less power and political power becomes repressive. Examples include limiting free speech/press, corruption, nepotism or gaining control over state institutions.

    Nordic Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-04-07

  • Assuming an entirely rational and well-educated voterbase, This house would set the threshold for elections to be 100% voter share

    Infoslide

    Democracy intrinsically supports the idea of people voting for who they believe to be the most representative and competent individuals. Despite this, most democratic countries only require a majority of voter share for elections to be won. Caplan's argument against the myth of the rational voter implies to some extent that the reason why democracies don't instead require a 100% votershare is because voters themselves are inherently irrational, conforming to many misconceptions about the world; typically resulting in the failure of said democracy. Voter share refers to all the voters who DID vote in a given election

    Southern Luzon Inter High School Debate Encounter 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-04-05

  • In the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse, This House would establish a new society based on the principles of the "Noble Lie"

    Infoslide

    The "Noble Lie" is a political philosophy suggesting that the state can use propaganda to maintain social harmony and serve its interests. It posits that individuals hold a shared “noble” falsehood, and that society can only function if many people believe in such a lie.

    13th Zamboanga Debate Open · Grand Finals · 2025-04-05