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RE:Jason Jarvis, Emory (ans. to "Fed gov't T")

I don't quite follow your concern regarding capitalization.  That seems to 
be a grammatical precision argument, and I am not sure why Federal Government,
when capitalized, necessarily means the U.S. Federal gov't.  Do Canadians not
believe in capitalization?  My interpretation of Topicality, is that it exists
for the sole purpose of dividing fair ground.  In other words, the only reason
why Topicality is a voter, is to check against debates in which the neg has
nothing to argue because they have not prepared for debating such a case.
The debate community agrees on a topic area, and the resolution acts as a
narrowing mechanism, within that area.  Regardles of whether most people regard
"Federal" as refering specifically to the United States, the only reason I
should ever lose on T is if my opponents have been denied legitamite ground
by my case.  Considering that my case would still deal with ocean resources,
and that I am announcing in early November my interpretation of the topic, and
that I am willing to post the full text of plan on Ceda-L, what legitamite 
ground is being lost?  Wah-wah, you can't run federalism or clinton popularity-
won't most people have prepared for a Canada counter-plan anyways?  Why not run
a counter-plan against my case, and read the ev. you've researched as to why 
the U.S. is a better agent of action.  It seems to me that the arguments 
against my case will be researched anyways (by good teams at least)- how is
my case unfair?  If you could provide a reason other than "it's grammatically
correct to interpret Fed gov't as U.S." than perhaps you would have a 
compelling T argument.  Perhaps this analysis would be helpful in determining
what is a good or bad T arg- We are not debating if the aff. is Topical, rather
should they be topical. (That's not mine, I don't remember where I first heard 
it.)  Oh well- thanks for warning me that you'd run T against me- I'll be 
ready, I guess.
Later,
Bryan and Sean
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