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PM – This house believes that criminal justice policy should be outsourced to technocrats instead of elected representatives
Opening Elected representatives have long played politics to blur the practical aims of the criminal justice system of creating safer societies. Don’t let them make you forget that sometimes knowledge is more important than public opinion and modern democracies implicitly take advantage of it. The side that creates safer societies wins the debate because that…
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This House Supports Filial Responsibility Laws
Ashish Kumar, 2016 HWS Round Robin Check the video here. Opening There is something genuinely bizarre happening in the status quo. If you’re a child and your parent neglects you, the state forces the parent to pay you damages. Often for the rest of your life. But there is no reciprocal burden if you as…
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This House Believes That Western Liberal Democracies Should Impelement A Competency-based System of Legal Rights (Positive)
Definition Western Liberal Democracies are defined as countries in the Europe. Competency based system is a system where citizens must pass a mental capacity test to obtain legal rights instead of allocating certain rights on the basis of reaching a specific age. Legal rights: rights which exist under the rules of legal system. The urgency…
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Except When There Is A Clear Threat to National Security, This House Believes That It Is Illegitimate for Western States to Limit Immigration from Developing-World Countries
Or ignore the first part of the wording of the motion, in order to make interpreting this debate more simply. …or maybe not. …..but maybe also yes. So, “This House Believes That It Is Illegitimate for Western States to Limit Immigration from Developing-World Countries” and let’s do the motion dissection. First, illegitimate means illegal. But…
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This House Believes That Doctors Should Be Obligated to Report Suspected Cases of Domestic Abuse
First of all, defining domestic abuse. You can read more here. Any form of physical, sexual or mental and emotional abuse which might amount to criminal conduct and which takes place within the context of a relationship. The relationship will be between partners (married, co-habiting, civil partnership or otherwise) or ex-partners. The abuse can be…