Basic Downloads

Are you new to speech and debate? The following downloads are for you. They contain introductions to various events that the Monument Membership explores. These downloads are updated every summer to prepare for the new year of competition.

Your Basic Downloads Source Material for Season 22:

File Name	S22-Policy-NCFCA-66-NEG-RetaliationForReporting.docx
File Size	53.98 KB
Date added	April 11, 2022
Category	Policy (NCFCA)
Author	Vance Trefethen

Resolved: The United States Federal Government should significantly reform its policies regarding convicted prisoners under federal jurisdiction

WARNING #1: This NEG brief deals with some sensitive and mature issues involving sexuality, gender roles, rape and violence. It was not our choice to bring up this topic. This NEG brief is in response to an existing Affirmative case written by someone else outside of Monument Publishing and being run in the NCFCA debate league. Students need to be able to argue against this case. If this topic is offensive to you, throw away this brief and don’t read any further. But understand that you will still have to debate this topic if the other team brings it up. You would be better off having this NEG brief than not having it, since the more often this case is defeated, the less often it will be used. I have written this brief in such a way that I would have allowed my homeschooled daughters to read it when they were of high school age. Your standards may differ, so make your own decision. If you don’t want students exposed at all to any material of this nature, you should probably drop out of team policy debate, at least for this season. Prisons are bad ugly nasty places and so bad ugly nasty things are going to come up in debates about prisoners. Your debate league voted to debate those topics. Neither Monument Publishing nor Coach Vance are responsible for that choice.

WARNING #2: This brief discusses arguments regarding gender theory and feminism that you probably don’t agree with. The point of the brief is not that you personally agree with these, but that the Affirmative’s experts do. And since their experts say certain beliefs about feminism and gender theory are part of the solution they advocate, the Affirmative needs to advocate those theories in order to meet the standards of their own evidence. The issue is not that the Negative advocates those theories. It’s that the Affirmative DOESN’T advocate them that is the problem.

Case Summary: The AFF implements a bill modeled after a New Jersey proposal to prevent retaliation upon prisoners who report sexual abuse by guards. Status Quo federal law already does everything in that law. AFF forgot to check whether there are any existing policies – they just heard that “abuses are occurring so we need a law!” That’s like saying murders are occurring, so we need to make murder illegal.

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You may still access Season 21 downloads here.

All Season 22 Basic Downloads will be updated by August 31, 2021. They will remain available through Season 22.

Easy Entry to the World of Speech and Debate

All Members have access to the digital copy of Easy Entry to the World of Speech and Debate by Chris Jeub. Download it below or order a hard copy.

Season 22 Release Schedule

Monument releases content all year long, from one national tournament to another, in what we call "seasons." We are entering Season 22 (2021-2022). For a list of all Member downloads for Season 21, click here. The following is the general release schedule for Season 22:

End of Season 21 - Officially archived on June 28, 2021. The new Season 22 releases begin July 5, 2021.
July-August - The first Monument Monday releases July 5, 2021. Basic informational material will continue through the summer (e.g. summaries, resolutional articles, etc.).
August 30, 2021 - End of the Pre-season, beginning of the official year of Monument Speech and Debate.
~~Christmas~~ Thanksgiving 2021 (we finished early!) - All foundational downloads are complete! Summaries of all releases are now available.
Through March 2022 - BONUS material released to members on a more as-needed basis using our Coaching Request Form.
April-June, 2022 - Qualifier and Nationals Preparation work is arranged...and Monument Members will be prepared to win!

Season 22 Debate Resolutions

Resolutions for Season 22 are posted here as they are announced by various speech and debate leagues.

Policy (all season):
- NCFCA: "Resolved: The United States Federal Government should significantly reform its policies regarding convicted prisoners under federal jurisdiction."
- NSDA: "Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its protection of water resources in the United States."
- NSDA Vote for Season 23 (Due December 15, 2021):
  - OPTION 1 – GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE – Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its support of multilateral greenhouse gas emission reduction regimes.
  - OPTION 2 – GLOBAL GEO-POLITICAL CRISIS: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES – Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its security cooperation with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in one or more of the following areas: artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cybersecurity.
- Stoa: "Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform the use of Artificial Intelligence technology."
Lincoln-Douglas:
- NCFCA (all season): "Resolved: In the context of innovation, the proactionary principle ought to be valued above the precautionary principle."
- NSDA releases six resolutions through the year:
  - Sept/Oct Novice: "Resolved: Civil disobedience in a democracy is morally justified."
  - Sept/Oct Varsity: "Resolved: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines."
  - Nov/Dec: "Resolved: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike."
  - Jan/Feb: "Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust."
  - Next release is due February 1, 2022.
- Stoa (all season): "Resolved: In the field of biomedical engineering, restraint ought to be prioritized over scientific advancement."
Other Formats:
- Big Questions Debate (all season): "Resolved: On balance, societies benefit from religious belief and practice."
- Public Forum for Sept/Oct: "Resolved: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization should substantially increase its defense commitments to the Baltic states."
- Public Forum for Nov/Dec: "Resolved: Increased United States federal regulation of cryptocurrency transactions and/or assets will produce more benefits than harms."
- Public Forum for January: "Resolved: The United States federal government should legalize all illicit drugs."
- Public Forum's next release is due January 1, 2022.

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