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CSUF
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Opponent: Puget Sound QB | Judge:
1NC- FW Cap Case 2NC- FW 1NR- K 2NR- FW
CSUF
1
Opponent: Puget Sound QB | Judge:
1NC- FW Cap Case 2NC- FW 1NR- K 2NR- FW
CSUF
4
Opponent: ASU CM | Judge:
1NC- FW Cap Case 2NC- FW 1NR- Cap 2NR- FW
CSUF
5
Opponent: Minnesota CE | Judge:
1NC- T-Restricitons XO CP Ptx DA Drones Shift DA 2NC- Drones DA Case 1NR- Ptx 2NR- Ptx and case
GSU
2
Opponent: Kentucky GR | Judge: Jim Lyle
1NC T-Restriction CR DA Flex DA Executive Restraint CP Block CR Flex CP 2NR CR CP
JMU
1
Opponent: Georgia KS | Judge: Lincoln Garrett
1NC- T- war powers Flex DA Politics DA Drones Shift DA Courts CP QDR CP Block- Ptx Flex DA Case 2NR- Ptx and case
JMU
4
Opponent: George Washington NS | Judge: Nate Milton
T-Restriction QDR CP Restraint CP Flex DA Drones Shift DA Ptx DA Block- Ptx DA Drones Shift Case 2NR- Ptx DA and Case
JMU
5
Opponent: Liberty AB | Judge: Oliver Brass
1NC- T-Restrictions T- Signature Strikes QDR CP Restraint CP Flex DA Ptx DA 2NR- Ptx DA and case
JMU
Finals
Opponent: JMU BM | Judge:
1NC- T-Restrictions Drones Shift DA Courts CP Restraint CP Ptx DA Flex DA Block- Courts CP Drones Shift DA Ptx Case 2NR- Ptx and Case
JMU
Finals
Opponent: JMU BM | Judge:
1NC- T-Restrictions Drones Shift DA Courts CP Restraint CP Ptx DA Flex DA Block- Courts CP Drones Shift DA Ptx Case 2NR- Ptx and Case
JMU
Finals
Opponent: JMU BM | Judge:
1NC- T-Restrictions Drones Shift DA Courts CP Restraint CP Ptx DA Flex DA Block- Courts CP Drones Shift DA Ptx Case 2NR- Ptx and Case
Kentucky
2
Opponent: UNLV VR | Judge: Will Repko
1NC T-Restriction Executive Restraint CP QDR CP Debt Ceiling DA Flex DA Case Block Executive Restraint CP Flex DA Case 2NR Flex DA Case
USC
1
Opponent: Weber State ST | Judge:
1NC- FW Drones DA Case 2NC- FW 1NR- DA 2NR- FW
USC
4
Opponent: Iowa CL | Judge:
1NC- T-Restrictions PTX DA Flex DA QDR CP XO CP 2NC- XO Flex Case 1NR- Ptx 2NR- Ptx and case
USC
6
Opponent: Louisville LR | Judge:
1NC- T XO CP Ptx Terror DA case 2NC- Terror DA Case 1NR- T and Ptx 2NR- All
Wake
1
Opponent: John Carroll | Judge: Jim Lyle
2NR- QDR and Ptx
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Cites
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CP - Executive Restraint
Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kentucky GR | Judge: Jim Lyle Executive orders solve and avoid politics Barilleaux and Kelley 10 Ryan J. Professor of Political Science at Miami, OH; and Christopher S. Lecturer (Political Science) at Miami, OH, The Unitary Executive and the Modern Presidency, Texas AandM Press, p. 80, 2010
An executive order is one of several unilateral tools presidents may use to carry out AND president and a general reference to statutes of the United States.2 )
Executive review targeted killing solves Murphy and Radsan 9 Richard Murphy is the ATandT Professor of Law, Texas Tech University School of Law. Afsheen John Radsan is a Professor, William Mitchell College of Law. He was assistant general counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2002-2004., DUE PROCESS AND TARGETED KILLING OF TERRORISTS
This Article has explored the implications of the due process model that the Supreme Court AND demands at least this level of accountability for the power to kill suspected terrorists
9/21/13
Case - Heg Advantage
Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kentucky GR | Judge: Jim Lyle SQ drone policies are effective- cripples Al Qaida Johnson 12 Patrick B. Johnston is an associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution. He is the author of and#34;Does Decapitation Work? Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Targeting in Counterinsurgency Campaigns,and#34; published in International Security (Spring 2012). “Drone Strikes Keep Pressure on al-Qaida,” 8-22-12, http://www.rand.org/blog/2012/08/drone-strikes-keep-pressure-on-al-qaida.html, DOA: 7-26-13, y2k
Should the U.S. continue to strike at al-Qaidaand#39;s leadership with AND bin Laden did in Afghanistan in 1996, after his ouster from Sudan.
Unipolarity doesn’t create peace Fettweis 10 Christopher Fettweis, Professor of Political Science at Tulane University, 2010, Dangerous Times? The International Politics of Great Power Peace, p. 172-174
The primary attack on restraint, or justification for internationalism, posits that if the AND worth noting for our purposes that the United States was no less safe.
Retrenchment now- transition to multipolarity and offshore balancing solves their offence Layne 12 The (Almost) Triumph of Offshore Balancing, Christopher Layne, January 27, 2012, Christopher Layne is professor and Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security at Texas A and M University’s George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service. http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/almost-triumph-offshore-balancing-6405?page=1
Although cloaked in the reassuring boilerplate about American military preeminence and global leadership, in AND during the next two decades will be its own decline and China’s rise.
No anti-americanism Foust 13 Joshua Foust is a fellow at the American Security Project and the author AND 20Strikes.pdf, DOA: 7-20-13, y2k
Based on anecdotal evidence, drone strikes seem to cause a rise in anti- AND reactions to the strikes than a simple pro- or anti-American narrative
3. Germ warfare!Like chemical agents, biological weapons have never lived up AND out humanity before, and it seems unlikely to happen in the future.
AND-Ex-Post review is irrelevant-~--standing requirement tanks the process Radsan and Murphy 11 Afsheen John Radsan is Professor of Law @ William Mitchell College of Law, a former assistant general counsel @ CIA—AND—Richard Murphy is Professor of Law @ Texas Tech University of Law, “Measure Twice, Shoot Once: Higher Care for CIA-Targeted Killing, University of Illinois Law Review, Vol 2011, p. 1201-1242, http://illinoislawreview.org/wp-content/ilr-content/articles/2011/4/Murphy.pdf, DOA: 7-18-13, y2k
Determining an appropriate scope of review still leaves open who should conduct that review of AND official with a measure of independence for meaningful review of CIA drone strikes.
9/21/13
Case - Modelling Advantage
Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kentucky GR | Judge: Jim Lyle No impact to prolif- no capability Singer 13 The Proliferation of Drones, 19/06/2013, Peter W. Singer, director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution, https://ip-journal.dgap.org/en/ip-journal/topics/proliferation-drones
Those worried about drone proliferation must face facts. We are no longer in a AND strategy in the Middle East – that will eventually allow it to do so
As drones develop the ability to fly completely autonomously, Sharkey predicts a proliferation of AND of 21st Century warfare remains fundamentally unaltered despite their arrival in large numbers.
No risk of an impact from drones prolif- no conventional warfare use Lewis 11 Unfounded drone fears, October 17, 2011, Michael W. Lewis, teaches international law and the law of war at Ohio Northern University School of Law. He is a former Navy fighter pilot and is the coauthor of and#34;The War on Terror and the Laws of War: A Military Perspective.and#34; http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/17/opinion/la-oe~-~-lewis-drones-20111017
While it is true that some other nations have begun developing their own unmanned aerial AND on most modern battlefields and are particularly unsuited to use by terrorist organizations.
Aggressors don’t have the intel or experience to be capable of attack Admiral Dennis Blair 13, Former Director of National Intelligence, “U.S. Drone Strike Policies: Speakers: Admiral Dennis Blair, Former Director of National Intelligence, and Micah Zenko, Douglas Dillon Fellow,” Conversation at CFR, January 22, 2013.
OPERATOR: Our next question comes from KT McFarland with Fox News.¶ QUESTIONER: AND cause us to have to take some more defensive measures in the future.
No major prolif over next 10 years – too costly and not effective enough Micah Zenko 13, Douglas Dillon fellow in the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). “Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies,” CPA at CFR, Council Special Report No. 65, January 2013.
Based on current trends, it is unlikely that most states will have, within AND states will undertake the significant investment required for armed drones in the near term
Drone prolif now AND US restrictions don’t solve Anderson 10 (Kenneth Anderson is a law professor at Washington College of Law, American University, a research fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Non-Resident Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, April 10th 2010, “Acquiring UAV Technology”, http://www.volokh.com/2010/04/09/acquiring-uav-technology/
I’ve noticed a number of posts and comments around the blogosphere on the spread of AND for many other reasons for many other parties, all on their own.
Naureen Shah of Columbia Law School, a guest on the show, had raised AND So I wouldnand#39;t worry too much about the so called precedent it sets...and#34;
No impact to nuclear Iran- U.S. still have significant advantages- threats are counter-productive Miklos, 1/28/2013 Timothy, 2nd year M.A. student at the Elliott School of International Affairs in Security Policy Studies with a focus on nuclear weapons. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan, International Affairs Review Contributors Thou Shalt Not Fear a Nuclear Iran: Eliminating the Nuclear Finish Line http://www.iar-gwu.org/node/456 Accessed 7/9/2013 DMW
A primitive, non-survivable nuclear arsenal should not make the United States or AND to nuclear rogues and therefore help to impede the acquisition of nuclear weapons.
9/21/13
Case- Drones Prolif
Tournament: GSU | Round: 7 | Opponent: Georgetown | Judge: No capability for prolif Singer 13 The Proliferation of Drones, 19/06/2013, Peter W. Singer, director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution, https://ip-journal.dgap.org/en/ip-journal/topics/proliferation-drones
Those worried about drone .. will eventually allow it to do so
As drones develop the ability to fly completely … unaltered despite their arrival in large numbers.
US restriction doesn’t solve Anderson 10 (Kenneth Anderson is a law professor at Washington College of Law, American University, a research fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Non-Resident Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, April 10th 2010, “Acquiring UAV Technology”, http://www.volokh.com/2010/04/09/acquiring-uav-technology/
I’ve noticed a number of posts and comments … other parties, all on their own.
Naureen Shah of Columbia Law School, a … wouldn't worry too much about the so called precedent it sets..."
No internal link – the affirmative has no reverse causal evidence that Turkey will stop wanting drones if the U.S. decreases its drone use.
Drones strikes are good – prevents Turkey from escalating conflicts Washington Post, 2011, ("Ankara asks U.S. to base drone fleet in Turkey", 9-11, PAS) english.htu.cn/washington20post/2011/09/11/Ax10.pdf 9-22-13
The conflict between Turkey¶ and the PKK has … part of the¶ country, encouraging themto take¶ a harder lineagainst the PKK.
Turkey wants drones – no explanation why they would stop with the plan Hudson, The Atlantic Staff Writer, 2012, (John, "Turkey Is 'Begging' the U.S. for Drones", The Atlantic Wire, 7-27, PAS) www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/07/turkey-begging-us-drones/55118/ 9-22-13
Turkey is employing a …l have to do without U.S. drones.
Middle East conflict won’t escalate Maloney 7 Suzanne, Senior Fellow – Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Steve Cook, Fellow – Council on Foreign Relations, and Ray Takeyh, Fellow – Council for Foreign Relations, “Why the Iraq War Won’t Engulf the Mideast”, International Herald Tribune, 6-28, http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/maloney20070629.htm
Yet, the Saudis, Iranians, …. The civil war in Lebanon was regarded as someone else's fight.
China won’t use drones Erickson and Strange 13 Andrew Erickson is an associate professor at the Naval War College and an Associate in Research at Harvard University's Fairbank Centre—AND—Austin Strange is a researcher at the Naval War College's China Maritime Studies Institute and a graduate student at Zhejiang University. “China has drones. Now how will it use them?” Foreign Affairs, McClatchy-Tribune May 29, 2013, http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/China-has-drones-Now-how-will-it-use-them-30207095.html, Accessed Date: 6-28-13 y2k
Drones, able to dispatch death remotely, … mind with its own drone programme.
No South China Sea conflict Rosenberg 9 David, Professor of Political Science – Middlebury College and Research Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies – Australian National University, “Dire Straits: Competing Security Priorities in the South China Sea”, The Asia-Pacific Journal, 3-20, http://japanfocus.org/-David-Rosenberg/1773
From the Taiwan Strait to the … Chinese meltdown, as many regional monetary authorities are quick to note.
No Sino-Japanese conflict Sutter 2 Robert, Professor – Georgetown, “China and Japan: Trouble Ahead?”, Washington Quarterly, Autumn, Lexis
Little appears to be on the horizon … avoiding confrontation and conflict.
9/29/13
Case- Terrorism
Tournament: GSU | Round: 7 | Opponent: Georgetown | Judge: No anti-americanism Foust 13 Joshua Foust is a fellow at the American Security Project and the author of Afghanistan Journal: Selections from Registan.net. He is also a member of the Young Atlanticist Working Group. MORE Joshua's research focuses on the role of market-oriented development strategies in post-conflict environments, and on the development of metrics in understanding national security policy. He has written on strategic design for humanitarian interventions, decision-making in counterinsurgency, and the intelligence community's place in the national security discussion. Previous to joining ASP, Joshua worked for the U.S. intelligence community, where he focused on studying the non-militant socio-cultural environment in Afghanistan at the U.S. Army Human Terrain System, then the socio-cultural dynamics of irregular warfare movements at the National Ground Intelligence Center, and later on political violence in Yemen for the Defense Intelligence Agency. Joshua is a columnist for PBS Need to Know, and blogs about Central and South Asia at the influential blog Registan.net. A frequent commentator for American and global media, Joshua appears regularly on BBC World, Aljazeera, and international public radio. Joshua is also a regular contributor to Foreign Policy's AfPak Channel, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Reuters, and the Christian Science Monitor, "Understanding the Strategic and Tactical Considerations of Drone Strikes," January, 2013, americansecurityproject.org/ASP20Reports/Ref20011020-20Understanding20the20Strategic20and20Tactical20Considerations20of20Drone20Strikes.pdf, DOA: 7-20-13, y2k
Based on anecdotal evidence, drone … pro- or anti-American narrative
Eleven years after …, though they may cause mass panic.
Terrorist groups don’t have the structure or strength to pull off a major attack Meuller and Stewart 12 (John Mueller is Senior Research Scientist at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science, both at Ohio State University, and Senior Fellow at¶ the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Mark G. Stewart is Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow¶ and Professor and Director at the Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability at the University of¶ Newcastle in Australia. “The terrorism delusion: America’s overwrought response to 9/11” International Security, 37:1, Summer 2012, MT)
In fact, it is unclear whether … most prominent and respected.26
No retaliation Jenkins-Smith 4 Hank C., Ph.D., Professor of Government – Texas AandM University, and Kerry G. Herron, Ph.D., Research Scientist – Texas AandM University, Fall
Our final contrasting set of … showed very little propensity to undermine
Numerous checks US-Russia war Bailey 98 Kathleen, Snr Fellow @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, August, NIPP, http://www.nipp.org/5.php
Neither U.S. nor Russian …. activated correctly to enable the weapon to be fired.
A recent report released by the RAND … the major issues without war.
No U.S./China relations collapse China Daily 3 2-13, Lexis
During President Jiang Zemin's … in Sino-US relations.
Collapse empirically denied Shambaugh 5 David, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs – George Washington University and Fellow – Brookings Institute, “The New Strategic Triangle: U.S. and European Reactions to China's Rise”, Washington Quarterly, Summer, Lexis
Third, significant divergences … against European interests.
Nuclear primacy key to checking US-China war Lieber and Press 6 Keir A., Assistant Professor of Political Science – Notre Dame and Daryl G., Associate Professor of Political Science – University of Pennsylvania, Foreign Affairs, March / April, Lexis
For almost half a century, the world's …. other states and fear an emboldened and unconstrained United States, will worry.
9/29/13
Courts CP
Tournament: GSU | Round: 3 | Opponent: Houston JJ | Judge: Courts have the authority Fisher, Congressional Research Service Senior Specialist in Separation of Powers, 2005, (Louis, “Judicial Review of the War Power”, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3, September, Pg. 466, PAS) http://www.constitutionproject.org/pdf/422.pdf 8-15-13
The terrorist attacks of … military actions in time of war.
Politics is a net benefit Intoccia, practicing attorney specializing in telecommunications, 01 Gregory Intoccia, practicing attorney specializing in telecommunications, 2001, Reassessing Judicial Capacity to Resolve Complex Questions of Social Policy, 11 USAFA J. Leg. Stud. 127, pg. np
Elected politicians appear … to eliminate abortion restrictions.
9/29/13
DA - Continuing Resolution
Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kentucky GR | Judge: Jim Lyle Unique link – compromise on budget now – plan kills the process – healthcare pushes to the brink now Dennis and Fuller, Roll Call Staff Writers, 9-18, 2013, (Steven T. and Matt, and#34;Talk of Shutdown Blooms, Despite Boehnerand#39;s Best-Laid Plansand#34;, Roll Call, PAS) www.rollcall.com/news/talk_of_shutdown_blooms_despite_boehners_best_laid_plans-227726-1.html 9-19-13
House leaders’ best-laid plans for an orderly kabuki to avert a government shutdown AND would face pressure from liberals upset over the failure to replace the sequester.
Talk to anyone on Wall Street and they will tell you they really don’t care AND you add all of them together, they suddenly become a concerning story.”
Decline goes nuclear Royal 10 director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010¶ Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict AND to focus on dyadic interdependence instead of global interdependence and do not specifically consider
9/21/13
DA - Debt Ceiling Clay
Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: UNLV VR | Judge: Will Repko Debt ceiling will be raised now- PC is key Dovere and Epstein, Politico Staff Writers, 10-1, 2013, (Edward-Isaac and Reid J., "Government shutdown: President Obama holds the line", Politico, PAS) www.politico.com/story/2013/10/government-shutdown-president-obama-holds-the-line-97646.html?hp=f3 10-2-13
President Barack Obama started September in an agonizing, extended display of how little sway AND “They don’t suddenly start going the other way as people rethink this.”¶
The prospect of wounding President Obama is weighing heavily on Democratic lawmakers as they decide AND to do in Congress, that's for sure," the aide said Friday.
Controversial court decisions spark backlash Zeleny, New York Times Washington Correspondent, 2010, (Jeff, "Political Fallout From the Supreme Court Ruling", New York Times, 1-21, PAS) thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/political-fallout-from-the-supreme-court-ruling/ 9-25-13
Today’s ruling upends the nation’s campaign finance laws, allowing corporations and labor unions to AND not tipped so far for corporate interests that citizens voices are drowned out.”
That prospect is made exponentially more scary with a debt ceiling deadline fast-approaching AND volatility in the stock market will pick up as Oct. 17 approaches.
Decline goes nuclear Royal 10 director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010¶ Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict AND to focus on dyadic interdependence instead of global interdependence and do not specifically consider
In his speech today about the future of American counterterrorism operations, President Obama said AND , but they are wrong to believe that Obama has violated the law.
Judicial restrictions undermine the executive- weakens national security Pushaw 6 Defending Deference: A Response to Professors Epstein and Wells, Robert J. Pushaw, Jr., James Wilson Endowed Professor, Pepperdine University School of Law. J.D., Yale, 1988, 5/15/2006, MISSOURI LAW REVIEW
Civil libertarians have urged the Court to exercise the same sort of judi- cial AND , for federal judges, sometimes discretion is the better part of valor.
CAPITOL HILL — A dispute over International Monetary Fund borrowing quotas is delaying efforts by AND that the United States should show strong support for the people of Ukraine. Obama isn’t spending PC for detention closure in the squo---only the plan causes the push and kills his PC---DIRECTLY trades-off with other agenda items---only our evidence assumes election politics. Josh Rogin 1/28 is senior correspondent for national security and politics for The Daily Beast., “Long Odds for Obama’s New Guantanamo Deadline: In his State of the Union Speech, President Obama announced he wants to close Guantanamo Bay, Cuba by the end of the year. But that’s a deadline he's unlikely to meet.” 1-28-14, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/28/obama-s-new-guantanamo-deadline-unlikely.html, DOA: 2-17-14, y2k
In Tuesday’s State of the Union, President Obama again called for the closing of AND has had over the last five years. And it’s a damn shame.”
PC is key to IMF reforms---failure causes Russian aggression Darrell Delamaide 3/5 writes "Political Capital," a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics that affect financial markets. A former foreign correspondent and recipient of an Overseas Press Club award, he has written for Barron's, Dow Jones, Institutional Investor, Bloomberg and others. He is an Atlantik Bruecke Fellow, “Capitol dysfunction threatens U.S. national security,” 3-5-14, http://www.marketwatch.com/story/capitol-dysfunction-threatens-us-national-security-2014-03-05, DOA: 3-13-14, y2k
The crisis in Ukraine, with all its echoes of the cold war, shows AND needs to protect U.S. security interests in the Ukraine crisis. Renewed Crimean war spills-over globally and causes extinction Angelo Fick 14 is a resident current affairs and news analyst at eNCA. He has twenty years’ experience teaching and researching across a variety of disciplines at universities in South Africa and Europe. Most recently he taught critical thinking and philosophy of science in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. “Russia in the Crimea: The Thin Red Line of Sanity,” 3-5-14, http://www.enca.com/opinion/russia-crimea-thin-red-line-sanity, DOA: 3-14-14, y2k
The events in Ukraine over the last few months, if not years, must AND madness of the nuclear-weapons toting few. The alternative is extinction.
3/14/14
NFU Solvency
Tournament: GSU | Round: 3 | Opponent: Houston JJ | Judge: Absent nuclear posture changes, the plan is not seen as credible Miller, Harvard International Security Program Director, International Security Editor in Chief, Project on Managing the Atom Co-Principal Investigator, November 2002 Steven, "No First Use of Nuclear Weapons," http://www.pugwash.org/reports/nw/miller.htm
If NFU is to be more than … made by the Soviet Union.
NFU does not solve global prolif and modernization – state’s still need second strike capability Guangqian, Strategic Sciences Editor-in-Chief, and Yu, Tsinghua University International Strategy and Development Institute Ph.D. Candidate, Winter 2009 Peng, Rong, "Nuclear No-First-Use Revisited," www.washingtonobserver.org2Fpdfs2FPeng_and_Rong.pdfandimages=yes, 9/27
Although an NFU treaty …pre-emptive acts by its enemies.
No global NFU pledges- Weak states fear aggression Guangqian, Strategic Sciences Editor-in-Chief, and Yu, Tsinghua University International Strategy and Development Institute Ph.D. Candidate, Winter 2009 Peng, Rong, "Nuclear No-First-Use Revisited," www.washingtonobserver.org2Fpdfs2FPeng_and_Rong.pdfandimages=yes, 9/27
First, some nuclear weapons … more vulnerable to adversaries.
Spent resources prevent Guangqian, Strategic Sciences Editor-in-Chief, and Yu, Tsinghua University International Strategy and Development Institute Ph.D. Candidate, Winter 2009 Peng, Rong, "Nuclear No-First-Use Revisited," www.washingtonobserver.org2Fpdfs2FPeng_and_Rong.pdfandimages=yes, 9/27
Another challenge to the NFU … to NFU policy.
9/29/13
Prolif Adv
Tournament: GSU | Round: 3 | Opponent: Houston JJ | Judge: Prolif is slow- empirics prove and reflex action is false Jones, 2/18/2013 Peter is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is also an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Rapid nuclear proliferation simply doesn’t happen http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/rapid-nuclear-proliferation-simply-doesnt-happen/article8729083/ Accessed 7/9/2013 DMW
There is considerable … the proliferation threat so often forecast.
No cascading prolif- even when nations have the motive the norm is non-prolif- empirics prove Jones, 2/18/2013 Peter is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is also an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Rapid nuclear proliferation simply doesn’t happen http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/rapid-nuclear-proliferation-simply-doesnt-happen/article8729083/ Accessed 7/9/2013 DMW
Moreover, neighbours were … Union collapsed but soon gave them up voluntarily.
Throughout the nuclear era, … lack of faith in extended deterrence.
NPT doesn’t solve Gwertzman 10 Interviewee: Nabil Fahmy, Ambassador in Residence, the American University in Cairo?Interviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor, CFR.org, May 19, 2010,” The Logic of a Nuclear-Free Mideast”, Council on Foreign Relations, http://www.cfr.org/egypt/logic-nuclear-free-mideast/p22153 assessed July 1, 2013 LMM
It has been more than forty … the dissemination of technology
No war Waltz 7 Kenneth, Professor – UC Berkeley, “A Nuclear Iran”, Journal of International Affairs, 3-22, Lexis
First, nuclear proliferation is not a problem … of more than fifty years. Pretty impressive.
9/29/13
QDR CP
Tournament: GSU | Round: 3 | Opponent: Houston JJ | Judge: QDR solves- reduces war powers Parsons, National Defense Magazine Staff Writer, 2013, (Dan, "Analyst: 2014 Defense Review Offers Opportunity for Real Reform", National Defense Magazine, 6-17, PAS) www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/lists/posts/post.aspx?ID=1182 9-2-13
Instead of shoehorning its current …. future first, before you balance the budget.”¶
9/29/13
T - Restriction
Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kentucky GR | Judge: Jim Lyle Interpretation - restrictions are prohibitions. Northglenn 11 City of Northglenn Zoning Ordinance, “Rules of Construction – Definitions”, http://www.northglenn.org/municode/ch11/content_11-5.htmljap
Section 11-5-3. Restrictions. As used in this Chapter 11 of the Municipal Code, the term and#34;restrictionand#34; shall mean a prohibitive regulation. Any use, activity, operation, building, structure or thing which is the subject of a restriction is prohibited, and no such use, activity, operation, building, structure or thing shall be authorized by any permit or license.
Authority is power delegated to an agent Kelly 3 - judge for the State of Michigan (JOSEPH ELEZOVIC, Plaintiff, and LULA ELEZOVIC, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY and DANIEL P. BENNETT, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants., No. 236749, COURT OF APPEALS OF MICHIGAN, 259 Mich. App. 187; 673 N.W.2d 776; 2003 Mich. App. LEXIS 2649; 93 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 244; 92 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1557, Lexis)
Applying agency principles, a principal is responsible for the acts of its agents done AND be delegated in carrying out the principaland#39;s business.and#34; Id. at 1348.
3. Bidirectionality – absent a prohibition, the aff can create meaningless and#34;conditionsand#34; that EXPAND presidential power – commission consultation proves Bidirectionality – Absent prohibition they can create conditions that functionally increase authority Posner 12 (Eric, University of Chicago Law, “Deference to the Executive in the United States After September 11: Congress, the Courts, and the Office of Legal Counsel”, http://ericposner.com/DEFERENCE20TO20THE20EXECUTIVE.pdf) To see why, consider an example in which the President must choose an action AND their power. If it did not, people would not enter contracts.
9/21/13
T- Nukes
Tournament: GSU | Round: 3 | Opponent: Houston JJ | Judge: The aff is not topical --- introducing armed forces only refers to human troops, not weapons systems Lorber 13 – Eric Lorber, J.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Ph.D Candidate, Duke University Department of Political Science. January 2013, "Executive Warmaking Authority and Offensive Cyber Operations: Can Existing Legislation Successfully Constrain Presidential Power?" University of Pennsylvania Journal of Contsitutional Law, 15 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 961, lexis nexis As is evident from a textual analysis, … trigger the War Powers Resolution.
9/29/13
T- Zones
Tournament: GSU | Round: 7 | Opponent: Georgetown | Judge: Interpretation - restrictions are prohibitions. Northglenn 11 City of Northglenn Zoning Ordinance, “Rules of Construction – Definitions”, http://www.northglenn.org/municode/ch11/content_11-5.htmljap
Section 11-5-3. Restrictions. … by any permit or license.
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