Tournament: india | Round: 4 | Opponent: msu rt | Judge: young
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Tournament: india | Round: 6 | Opponent: msu cz | Judge: hennigan

Every day, each and every one of us participates in a war which consists of endless genocide of the non-human. This violence is rendered imperceptible by a normative understanding of war that excuses violence against the non-human as legitimate.

Kochi 9 - Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (Tarik, "Species War: Law, Violence and Animals," SAGE Journals)

7. The idea that war and violence sits at the foundation of law and
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horrors I here omit are nevertheless at the center of this lecture." 9
A little while later she states: "Let me say it openly: we
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more historical, and perhaps sociological, discussion of the Law of war.
The term war commonly evokes images of states, armies, grand weapons, battle
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-human animals well inside the framework of religious and moral legitimacy. 12
Of relevance is the practice by which the question of legitimate violence is ordered –
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. Ethics, Humans and Other Animals ( London: Routledge, 2000).

This Western conception of war is grounded upon a hierarchy of values that regards nonhuman life as raw material for the preservation of human life.

Kochi 9 - Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (Tarik, "Species War: Law, Violence and Animals," SAGE Journals)

The response of the lawyer, international lawyer, politician or philosopher to the account
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of life preferred for preservation within the early modern juridical ordering of war. 

The move to exclude specieist exploitation as war is the same move by other historical acts of genocide.  Our affirmative demands recognition of this unending violence as war.

Kochi 9 - Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (Tarik "Species War: Law, Violence and Animals"

The meanings attached to the words we use are significant here. Many of our
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capture and killing so that we humans might not bruise our flesh.13
While such an example appears at first bizarre, it is not out of the
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of non-human animal life. At p. 4 he states:
And before we judge them too harshly, we must remember what ruthless and utter
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of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit.
 " ’They went like sheep to the slaughter.’ ’They died like animals.’ ’The Nazi butchers killed them.’ Denunciation of the camps reverberates so fully with the language of the stockyard and slaughterhouse that it is barely necessary for me to prepare the ground for the comparison I am about to make. The crime of the Third Reich, says the voice of accusation, was to treat people like animals." 14

Voting affirmative acknowledges the existence of the war against the nonhuman. We must reject the hierarchy of the human/nonhuman and reject the notion of legitimate violence.

Kochi 9 - Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (Tarik, "Species War: Law, Violence and Animals," SAGE Journals)

Although species war remains largely hidden because it is not seen as war or even
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its moment of foundation, as a generator, as a motor. 7

Our affirmative is an act of assuming a traitorous identity. The dynamics of different forms of privilege posits us all as in positions of both the oppressor and oppressed. In the species war, we are all human oppressors that are complicit in a cycle of tortuous violence. The only feasible solution for the nonhuman is to work against the structures of your own culture. This does not mean we deny our identities or claim unity with the oppressed, but it does mean that we adopt an ethic that attempts to end our own domination.

Plumwood 2 – (Val, "Environmental Ethics", p.205-6)

There are, I have suggested, multiple bases for critical solidarity with nature.
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relationship to the other in a more or less open-ended way.

Now, we must accept the fact that the human itself is an ethically bankrupt subject.

Kochi and Ordan 8 – Lecturer in Law and International Security at the U of Sussex, and *Research in Translation Studies at Bar Ilan U, (Tarik and Noam, "An argument for the global suicide of humanity" borderlands", http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6981/is_3_7/ai_n31524968/

The global suicide of humanity
How might such a standpoint of dialectical, utopian anti-humanism reconfigure a notion
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no matter how hard we try to forget, suppress or repress it.

Human reform is impossible, the only feasible strategy is one of unflinching animal liberation

Screaming Wolf ’91—Animal Liberation Front, http://www.reachoutpub.com/dow.pdf-http://www.reachoutpub.com/dow.pdf

These increasingly frustrated individuals examine their assumption that educating the public about what is really
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. So long as there are people, animals will need this revolution. 

Only an uncompromising rejection of institutions smashes the root of anthropocentric violence

Punkerslut ’9 sex-positive anarchist, "The Relationship of Anarchism and Animal Rights" September http://www.punkerslut.com/articles/relationshipanarchy.html

"This system, in which mother and children are brought up to fear the
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autonomous, cooperative associations, you’ll have the real tool of social change.

Tournament: india | Round: 7 | Opponent: louisville bl | Judge: fields
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Tournament: india | Round: 2 | Opponent: john carroll ms | Judge: hingstman
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Advantage one Preemption
Presidential authority is modeled globally – causes global preemptive conflict
Sloane, 08 ~Associate Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law, Robert, Boston University Law Review, April, 88 B.U.L. Rev. 341, p. lexis~
There is a great deal more constitutional history that arguably bears on the scope of
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to U.S. national security in the twenty-first century.
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That precedent causes global escalation  
Rehman, 12 ~9/13/12, Fehzan, International Relations at the University of Westminster, "Analyzing America’s National Security Strategy", e-International Relations, http://www.e-ir.info/2012/09/13/analyzing-americas-national-security-strategy/~~
Another implication on sovereignty, due to the NSS, was, yet again,
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emption and preventive wars against Taiwan for the promotion of its Chinese values.
These conflicts go nuclear
Arbatov, 13 ~Military Power in World Politics in the 21st Century Alexei Arbatov is Director of the International Security Center at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations; Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Real and Imaginary Threats, http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/number/Real-and-Imaginary-Threats-15925~~
At the same time, there is an ongoing rivalry between them, involving indirect
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in this regard is posed by military-political confrontation in South Asia.
The plan precludes conflict escalation – binding Congressional role signals restraint
Damrosch, 97 ~Lori Fisler Damrosch, Professor of Law at the Columbia University School of Law, "Use of Force and Constitutionalism", Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 36 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. 449, Lexis~
Structural-institutional explanations, on the other hand, point to features of liberal
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war in the form of institutional constraint if not of inherent disposition." n31
~TO FOOTNOTE~ n31. Russett, supra note 23, at 39 (
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perception of Spain in 1898), the restraint may fail to take effect.
It is necessary to create constraints that decrease the prevalence of war
Martin, 11 ~ Copyright (c) 2011 Brooklyn Law Review Brooklyn Law Review Winter, 2011 Brooklyn Law Review 76 Brooklyn L. Rev. 611LENGTH: 52175 words ARTICLE: Taking War Seriously: A Model for Constitutional Constraints on the Use of Force in Compliance with International Law NAME: Craig Martin+ BIO: + Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Baltimore School of Law~
Conclusion The prevention of armed conflict is central to modern international law, and reducing
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but ultimately by protecting them from involvement in illegitimate and unwise military adventures.
The propensity for conflict is causally related to executive influence
Daskal and Vladeck 14 (Jennifer, Assistant Professor of Law – American University Washington College of Law, "After the AUMF," Harvard National Security Journal, Vol. 5, January, http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Daskal-Vladeck-Final1.pdf-http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Daskal-Vladeck-Final1.pdf)
Thus, while certain entities and individuals clearly fall outside of the Administration’s definition of
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conflict paradoxically threatens to make the nation less safe in the long term.
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Advantage Two Coherence
Executive decision making historically fails
Rockman, 12 – University Professor of Political Science and Research Professor in the University Center for International Studies at the Uniersity of Pittsburgh (Bert, Poor Leadership and Bad Governance ed: Helms, p. 18-19

Being a global power, the United States has more opportunity to fail with greater
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successes often proved to be more problematic than not in the longer run.

Future interventions are likely – they escalate and go nuclear
Friedman, 11 ~George Friedman, President of Stratfor Global Forecasting, "What Happened to the American Declaration of War?", http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110328-what-happened-american-declaration-war~~
An Increasing Tempo of Operations All of this came just before the United States emerged
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-or-death matter, a tonic for our adolescent body politic.

The plan solves – Congressional requirements avoids insularity and confirmation bias
Holmes, 9 - Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, New York University School of Law (Stephen, 97 Calif. L. Rev. 301, "In Case of Emergency: Misunderstanding Tradeoffs in the War on Terror", lexis)

The most disastrous result of the Bush administration’s hostility to adversarial decision making was the
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key members had not been deliberately deceived by executive-branch prevarication. n61
To refute the Founders’ claim that the executive branch will, on balance, perform
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relative short term, to stop having plausible reasons for its actions. n63
Its capacity for secrecy and dispatch, as mentioned, qualifies the executive branch for
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thoughtfulness with which the executive branch approaches security-security tradeoffs is questionable.
It should also be said that the executive branch cannot hide from Congress, the
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source of governmental dysfunction in the run-up to 9/11.
Clear rules in advance are superior in a crisis situation
Pearlstein, 9 - Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public 26 International Affairs, Princeton University (Deborah, "Form and Function in the National Security Constitution" 41 Conn. L. Rev. 1549, lexis)

What the new functionalists fail to engage, however, are flexibility’s substantial costs,
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wants and what an agent knows and does is thus likely even greater.
The Cuban Missile Crisis affords striking examples of such a problem. When informed by
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undermine higher priority political interests in avoiding potential provocations of the Soviets. n195
It is in part for such reasons that studies of organizational performance in crisis management
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incorporated professional expertise, and which are set as effective constraints in advance.
Examples of excessive flexibility producing adverse consequences are ample. Following Hurricane Katrina, one
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in part, with breaking into businesses and taking what residents needed. n200
Or consider the widespread abuse of prisoners at U.S. detention facilities such
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~*1606~  produce errors either to the benefit or detriment of security.
~Pearlstein continues~
In particular, military investigators looking at the causes of Abu Ghraib cited vague guidance
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and led to decisionmaking that it is overly kind to call arbitrary. n208
Would the new functionalists disagree with the importance of government planning for detention operations in
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something more than arbitrary attention has been paid before transcendent priorities are overridden.

The existence of restrictions induces superior executive branch decision-making
Cole, 12 – professor of law at Georgetown (David, "Are We Stuck with the Imperial Presidency?" 6/7,
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/07/are-we-stuck-imperial-presidency/?pagination=false-http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/07/are-we-stuck-imperial-presidency/?pagination=false)

Posner and Vermeule contend that more specific statutory regimes have also failed to constrain the
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, would certainly be surprised to learn that his power knows no limits.
Incoherent policies undermine military operations – the plan solves
Gallagher, 11 ~Lieutenant Colonel Joseph V. Gallagher III, United States Marine Corps, "Unconstitutional War: Strategic Risk in the Age of Congressional Abdication", Parameters, summer, http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/articles/2011summer/gallagher.pdf~~
Understanding the Gap Since World War II, a wide gap has developed between Congress
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63 This connection, Clausewitz observed, is necessary for success in war.
~Gallagher continues~
For example, US strategy following World War II ironically came to resemble the German
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deploying forces into significant armed conflict without the full blessing of Congress.83
~Gallagher continues~
Conclusion Reminiscent of the 1973 WPR, the National War Powers Commission’s effort to redress
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wage fewer of them—and be far better positioned to win them.
Effective power projection stops hotspot escalation to nuclear war
O’Hanlon, 07 ~Michael O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow and Sydney Stein Jr. Chair in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and Frederick Kagan, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and "The Case for Larger Ground Forces", Stanley Foundation Report, April, http://stanleyfoundation.org/publications/other/Kagan_OHanlon_07.pdf~~

We live at a time when wars not only rage in nearly every region but
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Such a measure is not only prudent, it is also badly overdue.

Decline causes every scenario for extinction
Brzezinski, 12 ~Zbigniew, Former National Security Advisor to President of the Great United States Jimmy Carter, Professor of American Foreign Policyat Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_SAIS, scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power (Kindle Locations 1476-1485).~
An American decline would impact the nuclear domain most profoundly by inciting a crisis of
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either water-scarce or water-stressed regions, as global demand for
water will double every twenty years.9 While much of the Southern Hemisphere is
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is crucial to helping the world avoid a dangerous slide into international turmoil.
1ac plan

The United States federal government should statutorily establish a permanent war powers consultation committee,
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defense. The statute should include an explicit point-of order mechanism.

We reserve the right to clarify21
1ac solvency
Solvency21
The plans restrictions spur democratic debate over the use of force and create strategic coherence in U.S. foreign policy even if there are risks of non-enforcement
Smidt, 9 – LIEUTENANT COLONEL MICHAEL L. SMIDT, US Army.  Paper submitted in fulfillment of a Masters in Strategic Studies degree at the US Army War College ( "THE PROPOSED 2009 WAR POWERS CONSULTATION ACT" dtic.mil)

Although the primary benefit from a joint Congressional and Presidential decision to commit the armed
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Where secrecy is paramount, having to go to Congress would threaten compromise.
~smidt continues~
Although Presidents have asserted the Resolution is unconstitutional, various Presidents have made decisions in
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be heard when their sons and daughters are sent into harms way.152
~smidt continues~
Moreover, when the government adheres to constitutional provisions in matters of national security,
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certainty. From the trench, that sounds like a strategy worth pursuing.
The plans modifications to the WPCA avoid circumvention and solidify a congressional lead role
Corn, 09 ~Geoffrey S. Corn, "Triggering Congressional War Powers Notification: A Proposal to Reconcile Constitutional Practice with Operational Reality", Professor of Law and Presidential Research Professor, p. online~
The inherent flaws in the War Powers Resolution have recently become the focus of an
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Congress with a fait accompli, and validate reliance on subsequent congressional acquiescence.
~corn continues~
The consultation trigger of the proposed replacement for the WPR provides the start point for
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efficacy of the historically validated war making balance between the President and Congress. 

This avoids presidential powers – maintains the right to self-defense, but creates a binding requirement impervious to circumvention
Corn, 09 ~Geoffrey S. Corn, "Triggering Congressional War Powers Notification: A Proposal to Reconcile Constitutional Practice with Operational Reality", Professor of Law and Presidential Research Professor, p. online~
Proposing an ROE Linked Notification Provision. This article is premised on the conclusion that
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, a result essentially conceded as acceptable by the Miller Center proposal.233
~corn continues~
It is the opinion of this author that incorporating such a notification trigger into the
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Congress and the President238" apply to the decision to initiate armed hostilities.
Future conflicts are likely – the plan maintains the basis for US leadership  
Kaine and McCain, 14 ~Senator Kaine From West Virginia and John McCain, Senator from Arizona, "STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS", http://beta.congress.gov/congressional-record/2014/1/16/senate-section/article/S441-1~~
Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I am pleased today to join my
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, which are increasingly the kinds of conflicts with which we are faced?  
~kaine and mccain continue~
It is essential for the Congress and the President to work together to define a
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and peace matter so deeply to us, as they do all Americans.  
~kaine and mccain continue~
The particular passion I had in coming to this body around war powers was because
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then acting in the best interest of the Nation to forge a consensus.
Explicitly mandated congressional authorization maintains flexibility, while restraining the executive
Fleischman, 10 ~J.D. Candidate, 2010, New York University School of Law; B.A., 2007, Washington University in St. Louis, A FUNCTIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF WAR POWERS Matthew Fleischman *, http://www.nyujlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Matthew-Fleischman-A-Functional-Distribution-of-War-Powers.pdf-http://www.nyujlpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Matthew-Fleischman-A-Functional-Distribution-of-War-Powers.pdf~~
IV. THE WAR POWERS LAW WE NEED Given the theoretical outline above, this
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Section 4 is the first section of the WPCA to be significantly altered.
~Fleischman continues~
The WPPA would strengthen the reporting requirements, as compared to what appeared in section
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to further clarify its role in one of our nation’s most important decisions.
Inclusion of point of order solves executive loopholes and prevents vague interpretation of the AUMF
Mitchell 9 (Jonathan F., Assistant Professor of Law – George Mason University School of Law, "Legislating Clear-Statement Regimes in National-Security Law," Georgia Law Review, Summer, 43 Ga. L. Rev. 1059, Lexis)
The proposals to add funding restrictions to FISA and the War Powers Resolution are equally
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Congress repeals the point-of-order device before considering the bill.

Tournament: india | Round: Quarters | Opponent: wayne nw | Judge: hingstman, fields, strauss

Our model of pre-round conditionality actually mirrors real-world cost-benefit analysis—k2 topic specific education

Don Bradford Hardin, Jr., JD from Alabama Law, 2008, Alabama Law Review, 59 Ala. L. Rev. 1135
 Against this background, CBA came to prominence as part of a larger administrative law
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vaulted CBA to prominence as the regulatory decisionmaking paradigm of the administrative state.