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Nationals (APDA) 2010: Finals
Is it morally permissible for religious parents to raise their children in complete silence for 18 years if the child gains "magic empathy" as a result? Opp said No.

Nationals (APDA) 2010: Semifinals
In 2005, Egypt should not have imposed a ban on all religious parties taking part in elections.

Nationals (APDA) 2010: Quarterfinals
China should provide each individual with a tradable baby permit. The birth of a child requires two permits.

Nationals (APDA) 2010: Octofinals
The Indian Government ought pay the dowries of women who marry outside their caste.

Hart House 2009: Quarterfinals
THS a 100% Death Tax

NorthAms 2010: Quarterfinals
This house would put entire urban areas under video surveillance.

NorthAms 2010: Quarterfinals
This house would put entire urban areas under video surveillance.

NorthAms 2010: Semifinals
This house would support corporate donations to political campaigns.

NorthAms 2010: Semifinals
This house would support corporate donations to political campaigns.

New York University 2010: Finals
Punish odd tribal murder?

New York University 2010: Quarterfinals
Should punitive damages be scaled to wealth?

Vassar 2009: Finals
Show the "Abortion Art" project at Yale?

Demonstrations (APDA) 2009: Demonstration
Omelas

Demonstrations (APDA) 2009: Demonstration
Michael Baer Novice Workshop

Demonstrations (APDA) 2009: Demonstration
Storey Clayton Novice Workshop

Stanford 2002: Round 1
In the movie "Dr. Strangelove", the President should attack the Soviet Union with a full nuclear strike once the bombers get past their failsafe points.

Stanford 2002: Round 2
Should a breakaway republic use chemical weapons taken from a superpower in their war for freedom against that power? Opp said yes.

Stanford 2002: Round 3
Should you give back a wallet full of cash dropped by a corrupt Enron executive? Opp chose not to give it back, then counter-cased with turning it in to the police.

Stanford 2002: Round 4
Who should be Time Man of the Century? Opp chose Stalin, Gov chose Lenin.

Stanford 2002: Round 5
All Native Americans born on a reservation should receive $1,000,000 in reparations from the US government.

Stanford 2002: Quarterfinals
Should an average straight female college student take a pill to become a lesbian? Opp said no.

Stanford 2002: Semifinals
Should Peter Pan save Captain Hook from the crocodile? Opp said no.

Stanford 2002: Finals
At the end of apartheid, when the TRC was being implemented, South Africa should have emptied its prisons.

Nationals (APDA) 2009: Octofinals
Should the US intervene in Pueblo housing policy?

Swarthmore 2009: Quarterfinals
Racial quotas are constitutional.

Nationals (APDA) 2009: Semifinals
Racial Quotas are Constitutional

Nationals (APDA) 2009: Octofinals
"Sexting" should be legal.

Nationals (APDA) 2009: Semifinals
Lift the Uranium Mining Moratorium in Virginia.

Nationals (APDA) 2009: Finals
The average moderate Sunni Iraqi should become an insurgent.

Nationals (APDA) 2009: Quarterfinals
Police shouldn't be able to lie during interrogations.

Princeton 2009: Octofinals
This House believes Asia is the problem

Amherst 2009: Quarterfinals
The President should lift the Executive Order prohibiting assassinations of foreign leaders.

Princeton 2009: Octofinals
This House believes Asia is the problem

Wellesley 2008: Quarterfinals
In a society where individuals have no concept of self-image, do you grant every individual that knowledge? Opp chose yes.

Brown 2008: Semifinals
Recognize Abkhazian and South Ossetian Independence

Nationals (APDA) 2008: Round 5
Oppressive government or no government?

Nationals (APDA) 2008: Round 2
Repeal the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act

Nationals (APDA) 2008: Round 6
Is hate crime legislation consistent with the spirit of the US? Opp said yes.

Nationals (APDA) 2008: Round 5
Court-appointed non-adversarial experts

Nationals (APDA) 2008: Octofinals
Remove the right not to self-incriminate.

Nationals (APDA) 2008: Round 2
Youngstown v. Sawyer was wrongly decided.

Nationals (APDA) 2008: Round 6
Rebel even though you know you'll die and your rebellion will fail?

Nationals (APDA) 2008: Quarterfinals
Recognize Hamas

Nationals (APDA) 2008: Finals
Should an evolutionary biologist debate an advocate of intelligent design? Opp said yes.

Nationals (APDA) 2008: Semifinals
Don't exclude immigrants on the basis of homophobia

Nationals (APDA) 2008: Quarterfinals
Legalize blackmail

Nationals (APDA) 2008: Round 3
Ministerial Exception to Title VII cases? Opp said remove it.

Princeton 2008: Octofinals
THBT There is No Crime Without a Victim.

New York University 2008: Semifinals
You're a governor who opposes the death penalty. Should you commute a sentence even though your constituents support execution?

New York University 2008: Finals
Should the gay community support ENDA? Opp said no.

Worlds 2007: Round 9
Citizenship for military service.

Harvard 2007: Octofinals
Immediately after the invasion of Iraq, should Paul Bremer have disbanded the Iraqi army?

Harvard 2007: Quarterfinals
Should a small liberal arts college include a provision in its honor code that punishes people who don't report honor code violations that they witness

NorthAms 2007: Finals
THBT child soldiers who defect from rebel armies should be allowed to serve in government armies

Demonstrations (APDA) 2006: Demonstration
The United States should give reparations to African Americans who can trace their ancestry back to before 1964

Demonstrations (APDA) 2006: Demonstration
An ideal justice system should not grant suspects the right not to testify in court on grounds that an answer would be self-incriminating

Demonstrations (APDA) 2006: Demonstration
Should Weisenthal forgive the Nazi? (Opp chose yes)

Columbia 2007: Semifinals
Institute a system of oil dividends in Iraq.

Smith 2006: Quarterfinals
Carter shouldn't have pulled the US from the Olympics

Princeton 2007: Octofinals
THBT democracy is not the answer.

Princeton 2007: Octofinals
THBT democracy is not the answer

NorthAms 2007: Quarterfinals
Fathers who request an abortion should not have to pay child support.

Nationals (APDA) 2005: Quarterfinals
The state should manage & distribute funding to schools based on no. of students.

Nationals (APDA) 2005: Octofinals
Absolute prohibition on double jeopardy (opp picked no)

Nationals (APDA) 2005: Octofinals
The losing side should pay the legal fees in civil court suits that go to trial.

Nationals (APDA) 2004: Semifinals
The Israeli tribunal should not have tried Adolf Eichmann without offering him up to the international community first.

Nationals (APDA) 2004: Quarterfinals
The US should offer an amendment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty banning the research and use of micro-nuclear weapons.

Nationals (APDA) 2003: Finals
Give a homeless person a dollar? (opp picked no)

Williams 2007: Finals
No organ transplant because you're on death row? Opp said yes.

Swarthmore 2005: Semifinals
Bad samaritan laws thumbs up, thumbs down. Opp chose 'thumbs up'.

Smith 2006: Semifinals
Teach masturbation in public schools.

Smith 2003: Quarterfinals
As a single issue advocacy group, should you legislate through congress or litigate through court? (Opp chose legislate)

Princeton 2005: Quarterfinals
Legal immigrants with children in school should be allowed to vote in school board elections.

NorthAms 2007: Semifinals
The media has a right to televise court proceedings.

NorthAms 2003: Finals
That This House believes that the Christian Right is good for democracy.

New York University 2006: Finals
Scrap the Kyoto Protocol

Nationals (APDA) 2005: Finals
Larry Summer's comments in regards to the lack of women in math and science did not warrant a vote of no confidence.

Nationals (APDA) 2004: Finals
No life in prison without parole

Nationals (APDA) 2003: Quarterfinals
Juror nullification should be allowed as an affirmative defense.

Swarthmore 2007: Semifinals
Emancipated minors should be granted suffrage

Swarthmore 2007: Quarterfinals
The US government has the authority to interfere in religiously discriminatory in housing practices among the Pueblo tribe; should they intervene? (Opp chose no)

MIT 2006: Quarterfinals
Use housing vouchers instead of building projects.

MIT 2006: Semifinals
Get rid of the Harvey Milk school.

Hopkins 2006: Finals
Commercial adoption should be permissible.

Harvard 2006: Finals
Liberal democracies who have the means to do so should pay for a means-tested right to emigration.

Harvard 2006: Quarterfinals
Institute a system of lottery voting for legislative elections.

Fordham 2006: Semifinals
Roper v Simmons was wrongly decided. (The Supreme Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid the execution of offenders who were under the age of 18 when their crimes were committed.)

Dartmouth 2005: Quarterfinals
Allow minority party to draw congressional district lines.

Brown 2004: Finals
Establishing an ethical religion; suggest man is naturally good or naturally evil? (Opp chose good)

Boston University 2007: Finals
Eliminate natural disasters and diseases or all intentional physical violence? Opp chose violence.

Nationals (APDA) 2007: Semifinals
End the Stanford prison experiment? Opp said yes.

Nationals (APDA) 2007: Quarterfinals
Sign your artistic masterpiece? Opp said yes.