Extemporaneous Debate Topics

Round 1. Environment and Conservation

• Resolved: State governments should implement "climate superfund" laws to hold major fossil fuel corporations financially liable for localized climate adaptation and resilience projects.

Round 2. Governmental Structure

• Resolved: The Supreme Court of the United States should overturn the precedent set in Humphrey's Executor regarding the President's power to remove independent agency heads.

Round 3. Health and Wellness

• Resolved: The United States federal government should mandate Medicare and Medicaid coverage for GLP-1 receptor agonists for the treatment of obesity.

Round 4. International Policy (U.S. Perspective)

· Resolved: The United States should formally transition primary responsibility for conventional European defense to European NATO allies by 2030.

Round 5. Social Culture

• Resolved: State-level bans on the hiring of H-1B visa holders at public universities and state agencies are detrimental to the economic and academic competitiveness of the United States.

Round 6. Sports

• Resolved: The National Labor Relations Board should classify all Division I NCAA scholarship athletes as legal employees of their respective universities.

Round 7. Technology

• Resolved: The United States federal government should mandate that all critical infrastructure operators fully transition to post-quantum cryptography standards by 2030.

Round 8. Technology

• Resolved: The United States federal government should adopt a comprehensive regulatory framework that classifies the majority of decentralized cryptocurrencies as securities.

Round 9. U.S. Economics

• Resolved: The economic benefits of aggressive, protective tariffs on foreign manufacturing outweigh the resulting inflationary costs to the American consumer.

Round 10. U.S. Politics

• Resolved: The growing ideological polarization within the Republican Party poses a greater threat to its long-term electoral viability than external Democratic opposition.

Round 11. U.S. Politics

• Resolved: The use of the debt ceiling and government shutdowns as routine legislative negotiating tactics has permanently damaged the institutional integrity of the United States Congress.

Round 12. Governmental Structure

• Resolved: The increasing reliance on executive orders to implement comprehensive domestic policy fundamentally undermines the constitutional role of the United States Congress.