![]() ![]() These theorists take the position that the affirmative team’s job is to affirm the resolution and the negative team’s job is to negate the resolution. ![]() Under this view, negative counterplans must be nontopical. Others believe negatives have a fiat power parallel to that of the affirmative such that affirmatives have the power to affirm the resolution with a plan and negatives have the power to negate the resolution with a counterplan. The weakness of this position is that it artificially constructs the debate round to rule out a very real-world debate strategy: countering a plan with an opposing plan. This view is not very popular amongst most debaters and coaches, but it does exist. These theorists believe that only the affirmative team is given fiat power to enact a plan and therefore negatives can never run a counterplan. Here’s how the National Christian Forensics and Communication Association (NCFCA) puts it… Ultimately, there are three camps when it comes to counter plans in policy debate. Debate is more fun and enjoyable for everyone when bias does not play a part and skew the results. I’d like to point out that while judges may have their own personal opinions on counter plans, just like any other personal bias for a specific argument, they may not use that in determining whether or not a counter plan can be topical or not and is valid in the round. A judge should look at the arguments of the affirmative and negative in regards to counter plans, and make a decision from those arguments. The reason why this matters is that counter plans in a round are all up for debate as we should expect. Examples of this include the usage of counter plans and the order of a topicality shell. Then we get to debate theory that debaters and coaches disagree on. For instance, no new arguments in the rebuttals, the affirmative shouldn’t run a case off-topic or run new responses in the 2AR, etc. However, there are certain debate theories that most people generally agree upon, because it would be hard to not agree on them. You can run whatever arguments you want, and do pretty much anything you want, it’s all fair game. But in terms of theory, debate has no rules. I strongly disagreed, which is why I would like to lay out my position on this matter.Īs Noah Howard over at Ethos Debate put it (you should totally read that article for more reasons why topical counterplans are legit), “debate has no rules.” Sure, you have the bare minimum rules to ensure that there’s fair competition for both teams - rules such as proper citations for evidence, you can’t fabricate evidence, you can’t use bad language, your conduct shouldn’t be offensive, etc. Send us feedback about these examples.I recently read an article from AcePeak on why debate counterplans should never be topical. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'revolutionist.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. ![]() 2017 Horizon's coming season celebrates strong heroines, with 2.5 Minute Ride by Lisa Kron (directed by Elaina Di Monaco) The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson (MacMillan directs), and Peter and the Starcatcher (Decker directs). 2018 The man with the jingle of money in his pocket who married the girl a year later would always cherish an abiding distrust, an animosity, toward the leisure class-not the conviction of a revolutionist but the smoldering hatred of a peasant. Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Times, 30 Mar. , Around and about Soho at the time could be found dissidents and revolutionists from half the countries of Europe - Louis Blanc, Karl Marx, Giuseppe Mazzini, Lajos Kossuth and Alexander Herzen. 2018 The red flag of the revolutionist in Lower California floats from the mast of the Mexican custom house in the Mexican town, the result of by far the most desperate and sanguinary battle yet fought on the Mexican peninsula. 2022 From the early days of Silicon Valley’s Internet-era revolution, as engineers, designers, and financiers began to recognize the potential of their inventions, sanctimony was a distinct feature of the revolutionists. ![]() Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 June 2023 On the second episode of Broken Bread this season, Choi talks to farm-to-table revolutionist Alice Waters about the importance of slow food. Recent Examples on the Web Leading that revolt is young revolutionist Luigi (Vincenzo Crea), while much older Silvestro (Luca Lionello) hopes to change things from within, by running for a public office usually held by the gentry. ![]()
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