Burden of Proof
The team that has the Burdon of Proof
What is the affirmative team?
The definition of Topicality
What is the issue of whether the affirmative team affirmed the resolution?
The definition of Significance
What is the issue of whether the need for reform is important enough to warrant a change?
Plan: The Salt & Light Team Policy students shall all receive stuffed bananas
What is an Inherent policy because the reform has already taken place?
The definition of Solvency
What is the issue of whether the affirmative team's plan for reform would work to address the need?
The definition of the Burden of Proof
What is, whoever makes a claim is obligated to give good reasons to believe that claim before it warrants a response?
The Burden of Proof for Topicality
What is the affirmative team must prove that their case falls within the boundaries of the resolution?
Two ways to prove a plan is Significant
What is a significant harm caused by the current policy and/or proving there is a significant benefit created by adopting this reform?
The definition of Inherency
What is the issue of whether the need for reform is embedded within the system being reformed?
Three types of Solvency
What is: elimination, comparative advantage, and maximizing goals?
The advantage of the affirmative team
What is having the first and last speech in the debate round
Plan: NATO will move the Allied Land Command out of Izmir, Turkey
What is untopical plan because the actor is NATO and the action is not foreign policy toward Turkey
Four criteria to measure Significance
What is: Magnitude, Scope, Tradition, and Moral Imperative?
Two ways to show Inherency
What is a significant harm will continue of a significant advantage will be prevented until the current policy is changed?
The standard the affirmative must meet in order to be solvent
What is proving that the plan sufficiently replaces the current system and either solves the problem, produces comparative advantages, or maximizes the goals of the current system?
The four question that outline the burdens of an affirmative plan
What is
- Does the affirmative team affirm the resolution?
- Is there a significant reason why reform is needed?
- Is this policy reform required to meet the need?
- Will the reform work?
The difference between passing policy that affects Turkey verses passing policy toward Turkey
What is policy that affects Turkey is untopical while policy toward Turkey is?
The difference between the magnitude and scope of a harm
What is magnitude measures the severity of a harm while scope measures how many people the harm affects?
Two types of Inherency
What is structural Inherency and attidudinal Inherency?
Four types of support for Solvency
What is: expert testimony, pilot projects, state of country examples, and historical examples?
Meaning of the Latin phrase "Status Quo"
What is the existing state of affairs?
Two factors the affirmative team considers to ensure that they present a topical plan for reform
What is the resolution actor and the resolution action?
The definition of tradition Significance
What is an argument that highlight the historical value of a policy?
The difference between structural and attitudinal Inherency
What is with structural Inherency the barrier to change is embedded in the structures of society; attitudinal Inherency the barrier to change is embedded in people's beliefs of habits?
Plan: Place increasingly high sanction and tariffs on Turkey to make Turkey remove Russian S-400s
What is unsolvent because the affirmative cannot ensure that Turkey will remove S-400s?