Reasoning
Definition of Logic
What is the science of right thinking?
Veni, Sancte Spiritus!
What is
Come, Holy Spirit!
Unlike the others, this speech is completely prepared before the debate begins.
What is the 1AC?
Irresponsibility is using your freedom for your own benefit, like this boy who attended his own funeral.
Who is Tom Sawyer?
Written by Patrick Henry, this speech was an attempt to persuade Virginia to war.
What is Liberty or Death?
Has to do with whether a statement is affirmative or negative?
What is quality?
Nihil est veritatis luce dulcius.
What is
Nothing is sweeter than the light of truth.
Reasons to Abolish the death penalty.
What is....(answers vary)
She admitted her sin, but would not reveal the other person who also sinned.
What is The Scarlet Letter?
Written in 1776 this document proclaimed the colonists desire to separate from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The three mental acts that make up a logical process.
What are simple apprehension, judgement, deductive inference
Nihil est virtute melius.
What is
Nothing is better than virtue.
The part of the debate where one side asks questions to clarify their opponents arguments.
What is cross ex?
This book is set in Boston, Massachusetts.
What is Johnny Tremain?
He spoke these words, “Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order…”
Who is George Washington?
The mental act whose verbal expression is what we call a proposition
What is judgement?
Ad majorem Dei gloriam.
What is
To the greater glory of God
The part of the debate we did not get to.
What are rebuttals?
The man in this book couldn’t see a pit he was being forced into.
What is The Pit and the Pendulum?
Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay these papers were a series of newspaper articles written to discuss the authority the federal government had to tax citizens.
What are the federalist papers?
The three elements of any proposition.
What are subject term, predicate term and copula
Salus populi sit suprema lex.
What is
Let the welfare of the people be the highest law.
The difference between murder and killing.
What is...(answers vary)
There was no grace under the law so he died for a crime he committed.
Who is Billy Budd?
Theodore Roosevelt wrote this as he opposed the way politics started to become sensationalized and reporting was used to stir up political sentiments.
What is the Man with the Muck Rake?