Burden of Proof
Topicality
Significance
Inherency
Solvency
100

The team that has the Burdon of Proof

What is the affirmative team?

100

The definition of Topicality

What is the issue of whether the affirmative team affirmed the resolution?

100

The definition of Significance

What is the issue of whether the need for reform is important enough to warrant a change?

100

Plan: The Salt & Light Team Policy students shall all receive stuffed bananas

What is an Inherent policy because the reform has already taken place?

100

The definition of Solvency

What is the issue of whether the affirmative team's plan for reform would work to address the need?

200

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?

200

The Burden of Proof for Topicality

What is the affirmative team must prove that their case falls within the boundaries of the resolution?

200

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?

200

The definition of Inherency

What is the issue of whether the need for reform is embedded within the system being reformed?

200

Three types of Solvency

What is: elimination, comparative advantage, and maximizing goals?

300

The advantage of the affirmative team

What is having the first and last speech in the debate round

300

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

300

Four criteria to measure Significance

What is: Magnitude, Scope, Tradition, and Moral Imperative?

300

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?

300

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?

400

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?

400

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?

400

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?

400

Two types of Inherency

What is structural Inherency and attidudinal Inherency?

400

Four types of support for Solvency

What is: expert testimony, pilot projects, state of country examples, and historical examples?

500

Meaning of the Latin phrase "Status Quo"

What is the existing state of affairs?

500

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?

500

The definition of tradition Significance

What is an argument that highlight the historical value of a policy?

500

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?

500

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?