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1 st Affirmative Constructive

1 st Affirmative Constructive. 1AC. Review. Affirmative = Change Topic = Resolution This year’s topic?. 2013-2014 Resolution. RESOLVED: the United States Federal Government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba, Mexico, or Venezuela. Plan for Change.

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1 st Affirmative Constructive

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  1. 1st Affirmative Constructive 1AC

  2. Review • Affirmative = Change • Topic = Resolution • This year’s topic?

  3. 2013-2014 Resolution RESOLVED: the United States Federal Government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba, Mexico, or Venezuela

  4. Plan for Change • Debate is a game = policy simulation • 1AC presents plan for change • The change must be something the government does • 3 Branches of Government

  5. Possible Plans? • Fully end the US embargo of Cuba • Counternarcoticswith Mexico • Increase economic engagement by assisting in research, exploration. and/or development of oil drilling with Mexico and/or Cuba. • Normalize economic relations with Venezuela in one or more of the following- Oil, ag, medicine, and shipping.

  6. Structure of a 1AC • 8 Minute Speech • Reads evidence • SHIPS

  7. Significance/Harms • Problem that the plan will solve • Usually told in form of a story • Almost always a big, big problem (Impact) • Nuclear war, poverty, disease, economic collapse, etc. • Cool debaters call this an “Advantage”

  8. Inherency • World’s worst argument • Says that the plan isn’t happening now

  9. Plan • The course of action that the United States Federal Government should do. • Usually this should specify things like which branch of government, how the plan will be funded, etc.

  10. Solvency • Illustrates that doing the plan will solve for the harms • You have to prove that doing the plan actually stops the bad things from happening. “Solves the advantages.”

  11. Our 1AC • Inherency: The embargo is never going to end • Significance/Harms (Advantage): • Soft Power • Human Rights • Plan: The United States federal government should establish a policy of constructive engagement toward the Republic of Cuba by lifting the embargo and removing the Republic of Cuba from the State Department’s list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. • Solvency: Doing the plan keeps our soft power and stops human rights violations.

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