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  • Within Netherlands, This house would mandate political parties to be internally fully democratic (including allowing open access to become member)

    Infoslide

    For the purpose of this debate, political parties are all organisations who take part in elections. Fully democratic parties are ones in which most if not all decisions about policy, campagining, positions in the party, etc. are voted on directly by party members. Party members can call for a referendum at any time if an (internal) threshold is met. Parties that are not fully democratic have many decssions made by selected bodies such as commissions or party elites. The includes parties who do not allow any (new) members, such as the PVV .

    Dutch Debating League 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-11

  • Assuming viability, this house would make belief in the supernatural impossible, immediately and irreversibly, for the rest of human history.

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, the supernatural does not exist.

    IV UFMG Open · Grande Final · 2025-10-10

  • This house believes that feminist movements in Asia should prioritize adaptation to local cultural contexts over universal feminist values.

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    Universal Feminist Values refer to core principles that apply equally across all countries and cultures. These include equal rights for women and men, equal opportunities in education and the workplace, non-discrimination, and the full right of women to make decisions about their bodies and lives. For instance, the UN's CEDAW convention universally recognizes women's rights worldwide. On the other hand, Cultural Adaptation of Feminism refers to presenting feminist ideas and movements in a way that aligns with the culture, customs, and social structures of a particular society. This makes the messages more acceptable to local people. For example, in South Korea, feminists have advocated for women's rights in the workplace while maintaining Confucian family values, or in South Asia, promoting girls’ education as a means to ""strengthen the family.””

    MPSC Nationals 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-10-09

  • THO the increasing reliance of groups fighting for social causes on litigation finance firms.

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    A litigation financing firm is a third-party financier providing funding to a claimant in order to contest their disputes before a judicial forum. In exchange for funding, such firms lay claim to a share of the proceeds of the case.

    MPSC Nationals 2025 · Novice Semifinals · 2025-10-09

  • THO the increasing reliance of groups fighting for social causes on litigation finance firms.

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    <span style="color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-family: &quot;Segoe UI Historic&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240);">A litigation financing firm is a third-party financier providing funding to a claimant in order to contest their disputes before a judicial forum. In exchange for funding, such firms lay claim to a share of the proceeds of the case.</span>

    MPSC Nationals 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-10-09

  • This House prefers the legislative review model to the judicial supremacy model in liberal democracies.

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    Constitutional review is the set of legal mechanisms used to verify whether laws, normative acts, or decisions of public authorities comply with a country's Constitution. There are two institutional models widely adopted by liberal democracies: (i) In the legislative override model, parliament can, through a formal process typically requiring a qualified majority such as two-thirds of votes, declare that a certain law will remain valid even after having been deemed unconstitutional by a court. This decision must be renewed periodically or is suspended. An example of this model is Canada, which adopts this approach through the so-called "notwithstanding clause" (Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms). (ii) In the judicial supremacy model, decisions issued by constitutional courts, especially supreme courts, are final in constitutional matters. The Legislature can respond politically, such as by approving constitutional amendments or altering ordinary laws, but does not possess formal mechanisms to directly nullify these decisions. This model is characteristic of the United States, where only a new decision by the Supreme Court can modify an interpretation previously established by the Court.

    Campeonato Nacional de Debates Escolares 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-10-08

  • This house, as a transgender individual in Iran, would cooperate with the government’s legal pathway for transition

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    In Iran, both trans men and trans women can obtain legal recognition only through a state-controlled and deeply invasive process that mandates psychiatric evaluation, court approval, and gender-affirming surgery—often involving sterilization. While the government may subsidize some of these procedures and recognized individuals receive updated documents and face less police harassment, the system reflects a long-standing institutional approach that treats trans identity within a medicalized and corrective framework.

    Kamalig Pre-NDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-04

  • In cases of graft and corruption, THP the standard of proof to be "Proof to the Satisfaction of the Court" instead of "Beyond Reasonable Doubt"

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    In Philippine graft and plunder cases, the standard of proof is beyond reasonable doubt, meaning the court must be firmly convinced of the accused’s guilt. An alternative standard, used in some jurisdictions, is proof to the satisfaction of the court, where the court evaluates whether the evidence sufficiently establishes wrongdoing, allowing more judicial discretion.

    Kontra-Korap Cup · Quarterfinals · 2025-10-01

  • In western liberal democracies, This House Opposes governments prosecuting individuals for online hate speech

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    For the purposes of this debate, 'hate speech' is a public statement by which a person, or a group of people, is severely threatened, insulted, or degraded based on characteristics such as their skin colour, national or ethnic origin, religious belief, or political views. Some western liberal democracies (such as the UK, Ireland, Canada, Germany, and Denmark) have laws that make 'hate speech' a criminal offence. People whom the authorities believe have committed hate speech can be prosecuted for their actions (i.e., can be convicted of having committed a crime, and punished).

    Dulwich Schools 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-09-28

  • Assuming feasibility, This house would ban trait-selective abortion.

    Infoslide

    Trait-selective abortion is the practice of terminating a pregnancy based on specific characteristics or traits of the fetus, such as sex or race, genetic conditions, or non-life threatening physical disabilities.

    UCLA IV 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-09-27

  • This house supports the dominance of non-interventionism in fieldwork research in the social sciences.

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    Interventionism in the social sciences involves giving significant money or resources to participants, developing relationships with participants outside of research, having participants co-design studies, explicitly acknowledging their help when publishing, etc. Fieldwork research involves collecting data in a natural or real-world setting rather than a controlled experiment. Fieldwork typically includes participant interviews, observations and surveys. Examples of fieldwork research include: interviewing prisoners, surveying victims in a post-natural disaster area, surveying political beliefs, etc.

    McGill Central Canadian Novice Championship 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-09-27