Congressional Debate

1. How is a PO chosen?
2. three goals: educate,________, and persuade
4. The reason the argument should matter to the audience.
6. A list of all the bills and resolutions that will be debated during the session
8. Criteria: Legislation must be debatable,__________, and timely.
10. This allows for clarification, challenges, or elaboration on the speech content.
13. How many minutes is a speech?
14. The PO must choose the person who didn’t speak last out of those who wish to speak.
15. Legislation = Bills, resolutions, and to the _____Constitution
18. The _____ officer runs the session and manages the chamber.
20. Two jobs of the PO include deciding who will speak and controlling their_____.
21. The process by which debaters frame, prioritize, and conclude their thoughts on the major issues of the debate.
22. What is in the last section of every bill? Null and _____.

1. Who must have a simple understanding of every topic being presented in a session of congress?
3. Debaters will use logic, evidence, and ____ to support or oppose the various legislation presented.
5. If both Allison and Ben want to speak, and Ben has spoken fewer times, Ben speaks because of ____.
7. What the debater speaks to prove true
9. The type of speech given by the student who wrote the legislation.
11. Competitors are evaluated on speaking skills, questioning, and use of ________.
12. A proper argument contains four elements: a claim, a warrant, data and ____.
16. This speech is given by any student in support of the legislation if the author is not present or declines to speak.
17. The logical justification for the claim; why the claim is true
19. The information or evidence used to bolster the warrant.