Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Minnesota PW | Judge: Nick Watts

Restriction(s) T

1NC T – restrictions

A. INTERP AND VIOLATION:

Congress enacts "statutory restrictions" the court imposes "judicial restrictions"

Peterson 91 (Todd D. Peterson, Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University, National Law Center; B.A. 1973, Brown University; J.D. 1976, University of Michigan, Book Review: The Law And Politics Of Shared National Security Power — A Review Of The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After The Iran-Contra Affair by Harold Hongju Koh, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 1990. Pp. x, 330, March, 1991 59 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 747) 

Based on both case law and custom, it is hard to argue that Congress
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. n91 The problem is that Congress has refused to take effective action.

~"restrictions" on~ is a plural and countable noun – plan effects a single restriction, which is sub-topical.

http://www.**macmillandictionary**.com/dictionary/american/restriction

~COUNTABLE~ ~OFTEN PLURAL~ a rule, action, or situation that limits or controls someone or something
trade/travel/speed/parking restrictions
restriction on: The county faces restrictions on the use of water for irrigating crops.
impose/place restrictions : The judge had imposed further restrictions on the reporting of the case.
lift/remove restrictions : We are asking the government to lift all restrictions on food shipments.
Thesaurus entry for this meaning of restriction
a.
~UNCOUNTABLE~ the act of limiting or controlling someone or something
The restriction of press freedom is seen as an abuse of human rights.

B. VOTE NEG:

1. Jurisdiction – grammar delineates the scope of the ballot – T is a rule and outweighs everything – hasty generalizations do not suffice

2. Neg ground – PICs with topic lit are hardwired into the resolution – our standard is also key to neg ’link uniqueness’

3. Aff limits – abstract treatment of plural nouns cannot preserve a concrete cap on total plans, only count-ability begets a stable case list and aff mechanisms

The K

LINK: The aff prescribes an otherizing discourse that serves to relegitimate our position of power- this seeks to affirm our rationality while assuming the non-western world is driven by irrational impulses
Gusterson ’99
Gusterson, Hugh. "Nuclear Weapons and the Other in Western Imagination" Cultural Anthropology, 14.1. Feb 1999. http://www.jstor.org/stable/656531 accessed august 17-http://www.jstor.org/stable/656531 accessed august 17, 2009.

Thus in Western discourse nuclear weapons are represented so that "theirs" are a
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is also to be found in U.S. national security discourse.

The nuclear pandora’s box has already been opened — the only way to avoid the racism inherent in global nuclear politics is to allow all states to arm
Gusterson ’99
Hugh Gusterson, 1999, "Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination" Cultural Anthropology pp. 111-143 http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/656531.pdf-http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/656531.pdf

The second position, participation, is based on Kenneth Waltz’s argument that all countries
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to shift the balance of power in their client relationships with the superpowers.

The impact is perpetual war — racist dichotomies create Otherization that normalizes us to violence – war becomes inevitable on all levels of society
Mendieta ’02
Eduardo Mendieta, 2002, "To Make Live and to Let Die – Foucault and Racism

This is where racism intervenes, not from without, exogenously, but from within
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of the living, then these threat and foes are biological in nature. 

Consult Brazil

Text: Prior to implementation, the United States federal government will enter into binding consultation with the government of Brazil, proposing that The United States Congress should prohibit the introduction of U.S. nuclear forces into hostilities unless the United States and/or its allies have been subjected to a nuclear attack and will implement the agreed upon policies of consultation.  We’ll clarify.

Observation one: CP is mutually exclusive with the affirmative—any permutation severs the certainty, immediacy, and unalterability of plan action, irreparably damaging competitive equity. It also proves that the affirmative is not resolved, making them nontopical and outside of the judges jurisdiction.

Observation Two: Brazil Says Yes

Brazil will side against intervention—Rousseff is worried about being perceived as siding with imperialists and also is careful to rebuff Chinese and Russian efforts to stymie the US

Berger 2012 (Stacey, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Violence in Syria Increases While Brazil Takes a Policy of Silence
http://www.opeal.net/index.php?option=com_k226view=item26id=12006:violence-in-syria-increases-while-brazil-takes-a-policy-of-silence-http://www.opeal.net/index.php?option=com_k226view=item26id=12006:violence-in-syria-increases-while-brazil-takes-a-policy-of-silence)

The ability to strike a severe posture toward the Assad regime should come easily enough
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well as to maintain strategic alliances pays the price of countless lives lost.

Observation Three: Relations

Consultation is critical to enhancing the US/Brazil relationship—even modest initiatives like the CP can have a profound effect of building trust and cooperation. 

Hakim 2011 (Peter, President of the Inter-American Dialogue, Foreign Service Journal, "Brazil and the US—Remaking a Relationship, http://www.thedialogue.org/page.cfm?pageID=3226pubID=2679-http://www.thedialogue.org/page.cfm?pageID=3226pubID=2679)

Still, even when bilateral relations have become strained in recent years, the two
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there is consensus in Washington on U.S. climate change policy. 

Downward push in relations causes Amazonian Deforestation and destabilizes South America

Shultz 00  (Donald, Research Professor of National Security Policy at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA: SHAPING AN ELUSIVE FUTURE, March)
While we are in a speculative mode, it may be useful to raise the
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, there is an increasing temptation to  look to the military for answers. 

Amazon destruction will cause planetary extinction
Takacs 96 (David, Instructor in Department of Earth Systems Science and Policy at California State-Monterey Bay. Philosophies of Paradise, http://www.dhushara.com/book/diversit/restor/takacs.htm)
Peter Raven  bases his thinking on Leopold’s observation "To keep every cog and wheel
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the famines could lead to a thermonuclear war, which could extinguish civilization."