Debate Special Elective

Fall 2008

Topics:

• National Security vs Right to Privacy
• Should the use of positive discrimination (affirmative action) be increased?
• Student Lockers, School's Right to Search?
   
• We should ban the death penalty
• Cloning human beings should be legal
   
• We should make it mandatory for United States citizens to vote in elections
• Children should be allowed to vote in national elections
• Is the United States truly Democratic?
• Is Direct Rule by the People Better than Representative Democracy?

Websites:

• IDEA: International Debate Education Association - can search debate topics
• Canadian Student Debating Federation - Resources
• Debatepedia: a wiki encyclopedia of pro and con arguments and quotations in important pubic debates around the world
• National Forensic League: Current Topics
   

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