Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wake Forest DL | Judge: Alex Bonnet
Framework
A. Our framework – The affirmative must present a predictable and stable plan of action (presented through a plan text) and defend that the United States federal government should adopt their policy. 

B. Our interpretation most predictable given the wording of the resolution:

1. “Resolved” expresses intent to implement the plan
   American Heritage Dictionary 2000
   www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=resolved
   To find a solution to; solve …
   To bring to a usually successful conclusion

2. The topic is defined by the phrase following the colon – the USFG is the agent of the resolution, not the individual debaters
 Webster’s Guide to Grammar and Writing – 2000
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm
Use of a colon before a list or an explanation that is preceded by a
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the sentence, begin the clause after the colon with a capital letter.

3. “The USFG” is the government in Washington D.C.
 Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2000 http://encarta.msn.com
 “The federal government of the United States is centered in Washington DC.”

4.  Our definition excludes action by smaller political groups or individuals.

Black’s Law Dictionary Seventh Edition Ed. Bryan A. Garner (chief) 1999
Federal government 1. A national government that exercises some degree of control over smaller political units that have surrendered some degree of power in exchange for the right to participate in national political matters.

5. “Should” denotes an expectation of enacting a plan
 American Heritage Dictionary – 2000 www.dictionary.com
 3 Used to express probability or expectation

C. Violation – The affirmative fails to provide a stable PLAN OF ACTION, instead the affirm … 

The aff will always win that the principles of their advocacy are good in the abstract, however the abstract does not provide a means to apply their principles as an action

Michael Ignatieff, Carr professor of human rights at Harvard, 2004 Lesser Evils p. 20-1
As for moral perfectionism, this would be the doctrine that a liberal state should
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, and thus respect for one right might lead us to betray another.

Without predictable ground debate becomes meaningless and produces political strategy that is wedded to violence and fails to achieve productive change. 

Ruth Lessl Shively, Assoc Prof Polisci at Texas AandM, 2000 Political Theory and Partisan Politics p. 182-3
The point may seem trite, as surely the ambiguists would agree that basic terms
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good arguments. Such agreements are simply implicit in the act of argumentation. 

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Restricting ground to arguments about the consequences of institutional adoption is a revolutionary conception of the political that re-orients citizen agency and invigorates social interdependence
Adolf G. Gundersen, Assoc Prof Polisci at Texas AandM, 2000 Political Theory and Partisan Politics p. 108-9
Will deliberation work the same way among ordinary citizens? Yes and no. Yes
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in other words, must be resuscitated as an allegiance to democratic deliberation.

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This deliberation toward democratic engagement preserves collective peace
Thomas A. Spragens, Professor of Polisci at Duke, 2000 Political Theory and Partisan Politics p. 90-1
In another equally important respect, however, Plato was, as a consequence of
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, is no small contribution to the democratic enterprise of self-governance.

Topical Education – By manipulating the topic to access their political project they skirt debate about the implementation of policies by the government. Their education is distrusting of institutional study and pragmatic reform. Even if their intentions are noble, their message results in fascist totalitarianism  
Martin Lewis, Assistant Professor at George Washington, 1992 Green Delusions p. 258
A majority of those born between 1960 and 1980 seem to tend toward cynicism,
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compromise becomes a kind of immorality, and constitutional refinements become inconvenient niceties.

This argument provides a-priori reasons to vote negative. You must use your ballot to ratify constraints on discourse to preserve a politically-enabling discussion
Ruth Lessl Shively, Assoc Prof Polisci at Texas AandM, 2000 Political Theory and Partisan Politics p. 179
To put this point another way, it turns out that to be open to
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they require the most unflag¬ging and firm support that we can give them. 

The deliberative implications of their advocacy are a prior question – pre-conditions of agreement are necessary for your decision to have any political value
Adolf G. Gundersen, Assoc Prof Polisci at Texas AandM, 2000 Political Theory and Partisan Politics p. 104-5
Indirect political engagement is perhaps the single most important element of the strategy I am
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limiting par¬tisanship and stimulating deliberation are to an important extent the same question. 

This is a voting issue for education and fairness

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A. All forms of radical politics must contend with the possibility of the subject's psychic attachment to power. Our resistance must take the form of micro-political action at the level of the subject’s desire. Though we can never fully transcend power, we can radically modify the field through ongoing practices of freedom.
Newman 10 (Saul, Ph. D in Political Science and Reader at Goldsmiths – University of London, “The Politics of Postanarchism” Accessed online 2/21/13 via http://dl.bookos.org/genesis/635000/34f75a38c180f40e0fe7f8c3a394f71d/_as/Saul_Newman_The_Politics_of_Postanarchism(Bookos.org).pdf djc)
If we explore this aporetic tension between politics and anti-politics as it applies
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for the revolution. Utopia is something which emerges in political struggles themselves. 

B. The state is a violent institution of domination – a structure which sustains and intensifies other hierarchies and relations of power and exploitation. If radical politics is to escape the pitfalls of state power and its inevitable authoritarianism, it must also eschew the form of the party.
Newman 10 (Saul, Ph. D in Political Science and Reader at Goldsmiths – University of London, “The Politics of Postanarchism” Accessed online 2/21/13 via http://dl.bookos.org/genesis/635000/34f75a38c180f40e0fe7f8c3a394f71d/_as/Saul_Newman_The_Politics_of_Postanarchism(Bookos.org).pdf djc)
Central to anarchism, as we have seen, is the repudiation of state authority
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its inevitable authoritarianism, it must also eschew the form of the party. 

D. Our alternative is resistance
Poststructuralism offers an opportunity to reformulate the claims of anarchism. By demonstrating how political oppression is linked to the cultural process of knowledge production and cultural representation, poststructuralism conveys a logic of opposition. poststructuralism stands against any totalizing conception of "being." Its liberating potential derives from the deconstruction of any concept that make oppression appear "rational."
Koch '93 (Andrew M. Professor of Government and Justice studies at Appalachian State University, “Poststructuralism and the Epistemological Basis of Anarchism.” The Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 23:3, September 1993. P 327-351 djc)

Those who base their attacks on poststructuralism in the claim that the denial of a
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derives from the deconstruction of any concept that make oppression appear "rational." 

E. Our alternative is best equipped to formulate the notions of politics and subjectivity that exceed the grasp of biopolitics.
Newman 10 (Saul, Ph. D in Political Science and Reader at Goldsmiths – University of London, “The Politics of Postanarchism” Accessed online 2/21/13 via http://dl.bookos.org/genesis/635000/34f75a38c180f40e0fe7f8c3a394f71d/_as/Saul_Newman_The_Politics_of_Postanarchism(Bookos.org).pdf djc) 

Radical politics today must come to terms with this logic of biopolitics and immunisation,
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to formulate notions of politics and subjectivity that exceed the grasp of biopolitics.