Debate Questions


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Year

Resolved:

Affirmative

Negative

1909

That the United States Government should not own the Railroads, Telephones and Telegraphs

Coreco

Big Four

1910

That Woman Suffrage would be Hazardous to the Best Interests of Our Country

Coreco

Big Four

1911

That a fair test of the Commission form of Government will demonstrate that it is more effective than the old system

Big Four

Coreco

1912

That the Congress of the United States Should Provide for the Further Strengthening of the Navy

Coreco

Big Four

1913

Should We Take Mexico?

Coreco

Big Four

1914

That Immigration to the United States Should be Further Restricted

Coreco

Big Four

1915

That Congress Should Have Left in Force the Panama Tolls Exemption Act of 1912

Coreco

Big Four

1916

That the plans of preparation advocated by the present administration is best

Coreco

Big Four

1918

No debate

   

1921

Must we fight Japan?

Big Four

Coreco

1922

That our Veterans of the World War should receive from the U. S. Government adjusted compensation to the amount of One Dollar per day, or its equivalent, for each day of service rendered, no individual sum to exceed Five Hundred Dollars

Big Four

Coreco

1926

That the United States Grant Immediate and Absolute Independence to the Philippine Islands

Coreco

Big Four

1927

That the Policy of Centralizing Power in the Government is Desirable

Coreco

Big Four

1928

That the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill, Senate Number 1176, now pending in Congress, should be enacted into law

Coreco

Big Four

1929

That the United States Should Refuse to Give Military Protection to Property Located in Foreign Countries

Coreco

Big Four

1930

That a substitute for trial by jury should be adopted

Big Four

Coreco

1931

That a Policy of Free Trade Should be Adopted by the Nations

Big Four

Coreco

1933

That more than 50 per cent of the local and state revenue should be derived from tangible property

Big Four

Coreco

1934

That the states should ratify the pending child labor amendment to the Constitution of the United States

Big Four

Coreco

1935

That those decisions of the Supreme Court growing out of the National Industrial Recovery Act are precedents that constitute a peril to the security of property rights and freedom of contract

Big Four

Coreco

1936

That the Supreme Court of the United States Should Continue to Exercise the Same Power That It Has Exercised in the Past

Coreco

Big Four

1937

No debate

   

1938

That the American Consumer Should Boycott Japanese Made Goods

Big Four

Coreco

1939

That the Several States Should Enact Legislation Providing for a System of Complete Medical Service Available to All Citizens at Public Expense

Big Four

Coreco

1940

That the United States Should Follow a Policy of Strict Economic and Military Isolation Toward All Nations Outside the Western Hemisphere Engaged in Armed International or Civic Conflict

Big Four

Coreco

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