Tournament: Georgia State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Vanderbilt AC | Judge: Hays Watson
The 38 most likely states will send their state legislators to meet in a limited article v Constitutional Convention to propose an amendment to the constitution of the United States to _ and subsequently ratify this amendment.

The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land—must be followed
Natelson, 04
(Robert G Natelson, Professor of Law at the University of Montana and senior fellow at the Goldwater Institute; Buffalo Law Review 10777 2004)
“The drafters of the” and “rules of the trust.”

Avoids ptix
Walker, 09
(Bill Walker, Friends of the Article V Convention administrator, June 6, “The MIAC Report and an Article V Convention”, http://www.article-5.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=266)
“The issue is the and “the FOAVC web site.”

CP lets people participate—solves democracy
May, 87
Janice C. May, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin, Winter, 1987 Publius, Vol. 17, No. 1, New Developments in State Constitutional Law pp. 153-179¶ http://www.jstor.org/stable/3330031?seq=2andSearch=yesandterm=amendmentandterm=stateandterm=constitutionalandlist=hideandsearchUri=2Faction2FdoBasicSearch3FQuery3Dstate2Bconstitutional2Bamendment26wc3Don26x3D1226y3D18anditem=2andttl=57779andreturnArticleService=showArticleandresultsServiceName=doBasicResultsFromArticle
“The only role for citizen” and “provision require popular election.”

Democratic governance is key to avert extinction – prevents terrorism, genocide, war, and environmental destruction
Diamond, 95
Diamond, 95 Larry Diamond, a professor, lecturer, adviser, and author on foreign policy, foreign aid, and democracy. “Promoting Democracy in the 1990s: Actors and instruments, issues and imperatives : a report to the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict”, December 1995, http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/di/di.htm
“This hardly exhausts” and “prosperity can be built.”

Tournament: Georgia State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Vanderbilt AC | Judge: Hays Watson
Republicans will pass debt ceiling – but Cantor and Republicans still can balk
Drum, Sept. 20th (Kevin, Congress, political blogger for Mother Jones, Yes, Obama will sign a clean CR because Obama is basically ok with the sequester, Mother Jones, 2013, http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/obama-boehner-sequester-budget)
“He gets to maintain” and “wild card. Stay tuned.”

Fighting to defend his war power will sap Obama’s capital, trading off with rest of agenda
Kriner, 10 --- assistant professor of political science at Boston University
(Douglas L. Kriner, “After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War”, University of Chicago Press, Dec 1, 2010, page 68-69)
“While congressional support” and “him in the international arena.”

Obama’s pivot away from Syria preserves his political capital for debt ceiling resolution
Bohan, 9/11 (Caren, 9/11/2013, “Delay in Syria vote frees Obama to shift to hefty domestic agenda,” http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/11/usa-obama-agenda-idUSL2N0H716N20130911))
WASHINGTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Putting off a decision on military strikes on Syria allows President “Barack Obama to shift” and “Bennett said.”

Obama has leverage to increase debt ceiling now --- his capital is key
Khunhenn, 9/8 (Jim, The Associated Press, “Issues test Obama's persuasion, mobilizing skills,” Lexis))
“The tasks stacking up” and “threaten a default.”

US Default will cause economic collapse  
Davidson, 9/10 (Adam, co-founder of NPR’s Planet Money, Our Debt to Society, The New York Times Magazine, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/magazine/our-debt-to-society.html?pagewanted=alland_r=0and_r=1and)
“The Daily Treasury Statement,” and “past several years.”

Economic decline causes nuclear war
Royal, 10
(Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises,” in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p.213-215)
“Less intuitive is how periods” and “to those views.”