Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: UNT AS | Judge: Bricker
Linear models of legal reasoning are inadequate to explain Presidential use of war powers. Reveals the flaws in scholarship.
Ghoshray ’09 False Consciousness and Presidential War Power:¶ Examining the Shadowy Bends of Constitutional¶ Curvature¶ Saby Ghoshray http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1095andcontext=lawreviewandsei-redir=1andreferer=http3A2F2Fwww.google.com2Furl3Fsa3Dt26rct3Dj26q3Dendless2520war25202522president2520war2520power252226source3Dweb26cd3D1326ved3D0CDgQFjACOAo26url3Dhttp253A252F252Fdigitalcommons.law.scu.edu252Fcgi252Fviewcontent.cgi253Farticle253D10952526context253Dlawreview26ei3DPBsZUvyLG6fM2gWCnYCoDA26usg3DAFQjCNE1ZRdeSVcqm5SBo1ohUzI5gyllTw26sig23Dp1uFJluQGXSLSmQAMaSTaw#search=22endless20war20president20war20power22 2009 Dr. Saby Ghoshray specializes in Supreme Court Jurisprudence, International¶ Law, Comparative Constitutionalism, Capital Jurisprudence, and Cyberspace¶ Law, among others. His work has appeared in Albany Law Review, ILSA¶ Journal of International and Comparative Law, European Law Journal ERAForum,¶ Toledo Law Review, Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review,¶ Catholic Law Journal, Georgetown International Law Review, Fordham Law¶ Journal, Santa Clara Law Review, and Loyola Law Journal, among others.
How does this false consciousness influence congressional¶ inertia or legislative indifference? This question
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through a separate framework than that discussed in¶ the existing scholarship.66
Creates a perpetual drive for “American peace”- skews the complexity of truth, injects illusionary realities into the false consciousness.
Ghoshray ’09 False Consciousness and Presidential War Power:¶ Examining the Shadowy Bends of Constitutional¶ Curvature¶ Saby Ghoshray http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1095andcontext=lawreviewandsei-redir=1andreferer=http3A2F2Fwww.google.com2Furl3Fsa3Dt26rct3Dj26q3Dendless2520war25202522president2520war2520power252226source3Dweb26cd3D1326ved3D0CDgQFjACOAo26url3Dhttp253A252F252Fdigitalcommons.law.scu.edu252Fcgi252Fviewcontent.cgi253Farticle253D10952526context253Dlawreview26ei3DPBsZUvyLG6fM2gWCnYCoDA26usg3DAFQjCNE1ZRdeSVcqm5SBo1ohUzI5gyllTw26sig23Dp1uFJluQGXSLSmQAMaSTaw#search=22endless20war20president20war20power22 2009 Dr. Saby Ghoshray specializes in Supreme Court Jurisprudence, International¶ Law, Comparative Constitutionalism, Capital Jurisprudence, and Cyberspace¶ Law, among others. His work has appeared in Albany Law Review, ILSA¶ Journal of International and Comparative Law, European Law Journal ERAForum,¶ Toledo Law Review, Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review,¶ Catholic Law Journal, Georgetown International Law Review, Fordham Law¶ Journal, Santa Clara Law Review, and Loyola Law Journal, among others.
Therefore, the perpetual drive for American peace is only¶ one or two assassinations
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¶ sense of vulnerability and the second is the issue of¶ isolationism.

Kills VTL
Ghoshray ’09 False Consciousness and Presidential War Power:¶ Examining the Shadowy Bends of Constitutional¶ Curvature¶ Saby Ghoshray http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1095andcontext=lawreviewandsei-redir=1andreferer=http3A2F2Fwww.google.com2Furl3Fsa3Dt26rct3Dj26q3Dendless2520war25202522president2520war2520power252226source3Dweb26cd3D1326ved3D0CDgQFjACOAo26url3Dhttp253A252F252Fdigitalcommons.law.scu.edu252Fcgi252Fviewcontent.cgi253Farticle253D10952526context253Dlawreview26ei3DPBsZUvyLG6fM2gWCnYCoDA26usg3DAFQjCNE1ZRdeSVcqm5SBo1ohUzI5gyllTw26sig23Dp1uFJluQGXSLSmQAMaSTaw#search=22endless20war20president20war20power22 2009 Dr. Saby Ghoshray specializes in Supreme Court Jurisprudence, International¶ Law, Comparative Constitutionalism, Capital Jurisprudence, and Cyberspace¶ Law, among others. His work has appeared in Albany Law Review, ILSA¶ Journal of International and Comparative Law, European Law Journal ERAForum,¶ Toledo Law Review, Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review,¶ Catholic Law Journal, Georgetown International Law Review, Fordham Law¶ Journal, Santa Clara Law Review, and Loyola Law Journal, among others.
In this construct, an individual regresses from the freespirited¶ human to a machine
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,¶ and thereby are able to bypass the more¶ subjective human essence.

The alternative is to reject linear methods of applying Presidential power and allow the curvature of the constitutional space to adjust to our socio environmental demands on the Commander and Chief.
Engaging in a curved model of legal reasoning allows laws to adjust as a part of the changing societal structure- breaks down information barriers.
Ghoshray ’09 False Consciousness and Presidential War Power:¶ Examining the Shadowy Bends of Constitutional¶ Curvature¶ Saby Ghoshray http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1095andcontext=lawreviewandsei-redir=1andreferer=http3A2F2Fwww.google.com2Furl3Fsa3Dt26rct3Dj26q3Dendless2520war25202522president2520war2520power252226source3Dweb26cd3D1326ved3D0CDgQFjACOAo26url3Dhttp253A252F252Fdigitalcommons.law.scu.edu252Fcgi252Fviewcontent.cgi253Farticle253D10952526context253Dlawreview26ei3DPBsZUvyLG6fM2gWCnYCoDA26usg3DAFQjCNE1ZRdeSVcqm5SBo1ohUzI5gyllTw26sig23Dp1uFJluQGXSLSmQAMaSTaw#search=22endless20war20president20war20power22 2009 Dr. Saby Ghoshray specializes in Supreme Court Jurisprudence, International¶ Law, Comparative Constitutionalism, Capital Jurisprudence, and Cyberspace¶ Law, among others. His work has appeared in Albany Law Review, ILSA¶ Journal of International and Comparative Law, European Law Journal ERAForum,¶ Toledo Law Review, Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review,¶ Catholic Law Journal, Georgetown International Law Review, Fordham Law¶ Journal, Santa Clara Law Review, and Loyola Law Journal, among others.
These two scenarios reveal situations in which the¶ needed information remains occluded from view
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¶ equipped to deal with uncertainties of changing socio-legal¶ environment.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: UNT AS | Judge: Bricker
Debt deal happening now but PC is key to prevent Republican hardline stance on spending cuts and a complicated battle
Kapur 9/9 Sahil Kapur, TPM's senior congressional reporter and Supreme Court correspondent, his articles covering politics and public policy have been published in The Huffington Post, The Guardian and The New Republic, “{Is House GOP Backing Down In Debt Limit Fight?”, Talking Points Memo, Seotember 9th, 2013, http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/09/house-gop-cantor-memo-debt-ceiling-cr-sequester-immigration.php?ref=fpb
House Republicans are taming members’ expectations ahead of the debt limit showdown, signaling that
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challenges in rounding up 218 votes to pass any conceivable debt limit hike.

PC key to quick debt ceiling resolution
JULIE PACE — AP White House Correspondent Syria debate on hold, Obama refocuses on agenda
Published: September 12, 2013 Updated 2 hours ago Read more here: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/09/12/3704721/obama-seeks-to-focus-on-domestic.html#storylink=cpy
WASHINGTON — With a military strike against Syria on hold, President Barack Obama tried
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to solve the spending problem that Washington has," the Ohio Republican said.

Boehner and Dems fight over the plan empirically proven- Kucinich Resolution proves
Hendrickson ’13 Ryan C. Hendrickson is professor of Political Science at Eastern Illinois University. 03 Apr 2013. Global Change, Peace and Security:¶ formerly Pacifica Review: Peace,¶ Security and Global Change http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14781158.2013.765397
In the House of Representatives, from the onset of the operation, Boehner made
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, the speaker successfully co-opted Kucinich’s more¶ assertive resolution.41

Even if a deal is eventually reached to prevent hitting the ceiling a protracted fight is economic sabotage – collapse growth, markets and confidence.
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future | Op-Ed Fresh Hell When Congress Returns
September 4 2013 11:25
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18597-fresh-hell-when-congress-returns
There are two different levels of economic damage from a debt-ceiling fight.
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fight has to be seen for what it is: “economic sabotage.”
Global economic crisis causes nuclear war
Cesare Merlini 11, nonresident senior fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute for International Affairs, May 2011, “A Post-Secular World?”, Survival, Vol. 53, No. 2
Two neatly opposed scenarios for the future of the world order illustrate the range of
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theocratic absolutes, competing or converging with secular absolutes such as unbridled nationalism.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: UNT AS | Judge: Bricker
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Presidential self constraint produces huge cred and popularity.
Druck ’12 NOTE¶ DRONING ON: THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION¶ AND THE NUMBING EFFECT OF¶ TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN WARFARE¶ Judah A. Druck’13 † B.A., Brandeis University, 2010; J.D. Candidate, Cornell Law School, 2013; Notes¶ Editor, Cornell Law Review, Volume 98. http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/cornell-law-review/upload/Druck-final.pdf
Naturally, some have argued that an unchecked President is not¶ necessarily an issue
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the potential¶ to go so far as tyranny) is unwarranted.157

Strong presidency is essential to avert nuclear annihilation
Paul 1998 (Joel- Professor at University of Connecticut School of Law, “The Geopolitical Constitution: Executive Expediency and Executive Agreements,” California Law Review, Jul)

Whatever the complexity of causes that led to the Cold War - ideology, economics
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rest in the capacity of the Presidency as an institution of constitutional dictatorship.