Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Na | Judge: na
Imperialism K
This year’s debate topic misunderstands the source of the harms outlined in the 1ac – the problem is not a simple question of Presidential authority, but instead a system of US Imperialism. It is telling that a change from Bush to Obama still has us arguing over killings, detentions and use of force. The affirmative’s attempt to restrict authority is not a real change from the status quo – it is just the flip side of the same process of imperialism
Kumar 12
(Deepa Kumar is an associate professor of media studies and Middle East studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, kindle for pc edition)

This argument was reflected in a slew of other articles….. realize the aims of empire-building.

Specifically, the focus on Presidential War Powers authority forecloses the background questions of imperialism and power
Bacevich 10
(Andrew, Chair of International Relations; Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University, Washington Rules: America's Path To Permanent War, libgen)

Pretending to the role ….. of the modern presidency.

This underlying foundation of imperialism means the affirmative can never solve because they don’t change the motives behind the exercise of authority, it will simply manifest in other ways
Bacevich 10
(Andrew, Chair of International Relations; Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University, Washington Rules: America's Path To Permanent War, libgen)

The abiding signature …..by which Washington rules.

Imperialism makes unending structural violence and extinction inevitable – this turns their advantages and outweighs the impact of the affirmative
Eckhardt 90
(William, Lentz Peace Research Laboratory of St. Louis, JOURNAL OF PEACE RESEARCH, February 1990, p. 15-16)

Modern Western Civilization used …... Life itself may depend upon our choice.
Vote negative - Reform attempts like the aff plan are always doomed to fail, instead we should engage in scholarly analysis of imperialism. This allows us to effectively challenge the epistemological origins of imperialism
Shome 6
Raka Shome, “Postcolonial Interventions in the Rhetorical Canon: An “Other” View”, Communication Theory, March 17 2006, Wiley interscience

The importance of a ….in political, cultural, and social discourses.

Solvency
Legislative attempts to curb presidential power fail - complexity of Executive agencies make circumvention of the plan inevitable
Dodds 12
Graham G. Dodds, Department of Political Science, Concordia University, Montreal. http://www.lpbr.net/2012/02/executive-unbound-after-madisonian.html ETB
*Eric Andrew Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School

• • Adrian Vermeule, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law @ Harvard

In Chapter Three, Posner and Vermeule ….. rule of law; periodically, the shackles slip off altogether” (p.10).

No solvency - President will ignore court restrictions, knows court will not follow through
Bradley and Morrison ‘13
Curtis A., William Van Alstyne Professor of Law, Duke Law School. Trevor W., Liviu Librescu Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Columbia Law Review 113. http://www.columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Bradley-Morrison.pdf ETB

The general posture of ……populism ¶ and lawlessness.”61¶ 

Lower courts will not uphold the plan
Borochoff 8
(Elise Borochoff, JD 2010, Harvard Law, “Lower Court Compliance With Supreme Court Remands,” Lexis)

The traditional model …… entirety of the judicial branch.