Treaties

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the 48 or so subjects is a very diverse list ... but it includes many 
issues which have been discussed at some level over the years by the 
debate community and make for significant discussions.  

it seems that leaving the "reservations" option as negative ground is 
probably a wise move considering some of the concerns listed so far.  it 
seems that a small program with three or four researchers could find 
"reservations" strategies against most of the treaties on the list in 
the time prior to the first tournaments.  also the topic area regardless 
of specific wording would give teams a fairly good notice of specific 
areas of research as opposed to many of the other topic areas.  

also it seems that it is a reasonable burden for the affirmative to 
defend the treaty against reservations presented in the literature.  it 
is not an infinite number of possible reservations but reservations in 
the literature which the affirmative should become aware of in the 
researching of their plan and case.

david rhaesa

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