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Consult and Condition Theory. Mandate of the Plan .
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Mandate of the Plan Counterplans must compete off of the mandate of the plan- not implementation questions. Functional and textual competition are the same thing because the counterplan is just a clarification of the plans mandate. How the plan functions or is implemented is not relevant to the plans mandate. And, functional competition needs to be determined by aff cross-ex clarifications of what our plan means. Allowing the neg to determine the function of our plan’s mandate is unpredictable and means we could never get offense – it allows them to redefine words in our plan text and means they could force us to defend things like normal means or an infinite number of implementation processes that we can’t be prepared for; they justify a counterplan to change the normal color of helmets or counterplans that compete off of certainty that the plan happens.Disads check their offense – you can read disads to the process of implementation that our aff undergoes, but you can’t get CP competition off of it.
Consult—Permutation do the cp Extend Permutation: Do the CP: Our interpretation says Counterplans must compete off of direct mandates of the plan or cross-x concessions, not assumptions of fiat, we never said the plan was immediate or certain so we don’t sever. Prefer, it’s the most predictable because its what the aff chooses to defend, other interpretations allow the neg to compete off of unpredictable implementation questions we can’t get offense on.
Conditions—Permutation do the cp 1. Perm – do the counterplan – it’s justified a.) It’s just plan plus. Our interpretation is that the counterplan has to be functionally and textually competitive. This is neither- it does the entirety of the aff—they aren’t allowed to PIC out of implementation issues like certainty or immediacy, only specific mandates of the plan. We’ll defend the aff in an unconditional world of the status quo and fiat ensures this for us. They cannot define what the plan does OR make the counterplan competitive off an arbitrary interpretation of fiat because it’s only an assumption we make to see if the plan is desirable—If the neg chooses this it makes being aff literally impossible and unpredictable because they can always shift. b. The plan is not conditional, the permutation is only conditional because it permutes the conditionality of the CP, we can’t sever our plan in the instance of a disad.
