Electoral systems, voting rights, term limits, and state authority. Explore all 35 motions with balanced arguments and counter-questions.
Debate whether the Electoral College protects federalism and small states or subverts democratic majority will and disenfranchises millions of voters.
Analyze whether limiting judicial tenure restores public confidence and regular appointments or threatens judicial independence and politicizes the court.
Debate whether the 60-vote filibuster threshold protects minority viewpoints and forces bipartisan compromise or paralyzes democratic governance in gridlock.
Analyze whether taking redistricting away from state legislatures ends unfair voter manipulation or usurps constitutional state legislative authority.
Debate whether ranked-choice voting eliminates the spoiler effect and moderates campaigns or confuses voters and delays election night results.
Analyze whether prohibiting politicians from buying and selling equities stops corrupt insider trading or unduly punishes citizen lawmakers and their spouses.
Debate whether ending the 'revolving door' between Congress and K Street stops policy corruption or infringes on constitutional rights to petition government.
Analyze whether 16- and 17-year-olds who work, pay income taxes, and drive deserve the ballot or lack the political maturity and cognitive judgment to vote.
Debate whether granting statehood ends disenfranchisement for 4 million American citizens or constitutes a partisan power grab to reshape the US Senate.
Analyze whether expanding the high court restores ideological balance after partisan blockade tactics or destroys judicial legitimacy in a cycle of court-packing.
Debate whether spending money in political elections constitutes protected free speech or allows billionaires and corporations to purchase democracy.
Analyze whether pledging never to use atomic weapons first prevents catastrophic miscalculation and escalation or undermines deterrence against non-nuclear aggression.
Debate whether reallocating hundreds of billions from military spending to healthcare and schools builds real security or emboldens aggressive authoritarian adversaries.
Analyze whether direct national ballot initiatives empower the public to bypass corrupt politicians or lead to mob-rule demagoguery and minority persecution.
Debate whether prohibiting foreign acquisition of agricultural acreage protects food security and national sovereignty or violates free-market principles and xenophobia.
Debate whether disenfranchising felons punishes criminality or subverts democracy by silencing 5 million predominantly minority citizens.
Analyze whether the unilateral P5 veto paralyzes international conflict resolution or prevents catastrophic direct military clashes between nuclear superpowers.
Debate whether expansive executive orders bypass legislative gridlock or create an imperial, quasi-monarchical presidency that erodes separation of powers.
Debate whether welcoming new members into NATO protects sovereign democracies from invasion or crosses security red lines that risk direct nuclear war.
Analyze whether the absolute executive clemency power acts as an essential check against judicial injustice or an unregulated vehicle for self-protection and political cronyism.
Debate whether open 'top-two' primaries reduce partisan polarization and empower independents or violate political parties' freedom of association.
Analyze whether party establishment superdelegates prevent unelectable populist demagogues or corrupt democratic primary elections.
Debate whether enforcing strict human rights benchmarks upholds international law or cripples vital strategic military alliances during global crises.
Analyze whether providing every citizen with publicly funded campaign vouchers breaks billionaire oligarchy or wastes taxpayer dollars on fringe candidates.
Debate whether term limits end entrenched careerism and restore a citizen legislature or empower unelected lobbyists and destroy legislative competence.
Analyze whether proportional multi-member districts break the two-party duopoly and represent all voters or empower unstable fringe coalitions.
Debate whether birthright citizenship provides essential social integration or incentivizes illegal immigration and 'birth tourism' industries.
Debate whether basic constitutional knowledge should be a voting requirement or an unconstitutional reincarnation of racist literacy tests.
Analyze whether leakers (like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning) deserve legal whistleblower protections or criminal prosecution for espionage.
Debate whether dual nationality creates divided foreign allegiances or reflects modern cosmopolitanism and global diplomatic understanding.
Analyze whether absolute diplomatic immunity protects diplomats from foreign harassment or shields criminal misconduct and vehicular homicide with impunity.
Debate whether forcing politicians to use public schools creates immediate accountability for education budgets or unconstitutionally micromanages family parenting.
Analyze whether state nullification serves as a vital shield against federal tyranny or unconstitutionally dismantles national union into confederacy.
Debate whether military interventions to depose brutal dictators bring freedom or unleash catastrophic civil wars, power vacuums, and regional chaos.
Analyze whether unscripted televised debates are essential democratic job interviews or shallow soundbite spectacles that candidates should have the right to skip.