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| Adoption, International |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 04/06/09 |
| Should couples be banned from adopting children overseas? |
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| African Languages in African Schools |
| created: 10/31/00, modified: 05/20/09 |
| Should native tongues take precedence in African schools, or should English and other non-African languages be the languages of the school room? |
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| Age Discrimination |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 04/06/09 |
| Should age discrimination be made illegal in the workplace? |
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| Anarchism |
| created: 06/24/01, modified: 08/28/09 |
| Is Anarchism a valuable political ideology? |
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| Balance in the media |
| created: 09/04/08, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should news broadcasters be required to be balanced and impartial in their reporting of events? |
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| Bank Bailouts |
| created: 06/12/09, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should the government bailout banks and financial institutions? |
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| Bilateral vs Multilateral Aid |
| created: 09/12/05, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should the USA prefer to give aid money bilaterally (directly to individual countries or projects) or multilaterally (channelling it through United Nations agencies, World Bank, NGOs, etc.)? |
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| Bill of Rights [UK] |
| created: 08/07/01, modified: 10/29/09 |
| Should the UK have a Bill of Rights ? |
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| Biofuels |
| created: 08/21/07, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Are biofuels a better alternative to fossil fuels? Should their use be encouraged by government regulations and subsidy? |
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| Bribery / Corruption |
| created: 09/17/03, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Is it ever acceptable to pay a bribe? Should companies who pay bribes abroad be prosecuted for it in their own countries? Should the ones who give bribes be treated equally to those who take bribes? |
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| Britain’s EU Rebate, end |
| created: 01/04/06, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should Britain give up its annual rebate on its payments to the European Union? |
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| Busing |
| created: 09/01/09, modified: 09/01/09 |
| Should children be ‘bused’ to schools outside of their neighbourhood, to ensure diversity within schools? |
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| Calendar Reform |
| created: 11/06/00, modified: 08/19/09 |
| Should the current Gregorian calendar be reformed? Should worldwide calendars be standardised? |
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| Campaign Finance Reform |
| created: 09/17/03, modified: 09/17/03 |
| Should limits or regulations be placed on how candidates raise funds, and/or spend them, during political campaigns? |
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| Capitalism vs Socialism |
| created: 09/13/05, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Which is the superior system – capitalism, or socialism? |
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| Censorship of the Arts |
| created: 07/20/00, modified: 04/09/09 |
| What is the right balance to strike between freedom of and restrictions upon artistic expression? |
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| Chechnya, Intervention in |
| created: 04/23/01, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should outside nations or international organisations become involved in the military conflict in the Russian province of Chechnya? |
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| Child Curfews |
| created: 04/24/01, modified: 08/25/09 |
| Should young people be subjected to night-time curfews as a way to reduce crime? |
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| Child Labour |
| created: 12/02/02, modified: 12/02/02 |
| Is the imposition of sanctions on states the best way to end child labour? |
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| China, Fear of |
| created: 11/01/00, modified: 07/12/09 |
| Does China give the rest of the world reasons for fear, in political, economic or social terms? Or is the ‘Terror from the East’ merely a myth ? |
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| Coalition Government |
| created: 10/04/01, modified: 10/04/01 |
| Is coalition government preferable to government by a single political party? |
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| Compulsory Voting |
| created: 10/03/00, modified: 04/18/09 |
| Should voting in elections be compulsory? |
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| Congressional redistricting in the USA |
| created: 02/21/08, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should electoral districts for the US House of Representatives be drawn by an independent authority or by state legislatures? |
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| Copenhagen Summit |
| created: 12/19/09, modified: 12/23/09 |
| Most questions that arise when it comes ti the Copenhagen Summit is its effectivity to reduce climatic changes because due to these changes the economy of each countries is drastically affected but with the provisions of the Copenhagen is asking too much of most countries especially developing countries which has been the source of most disputes. |
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| Corruption, Benefits of |
| created: 06/12/06, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should public corruption be accepted as a normal state of affairs in countries at a certain stage of development? |
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| Developing World Debt |
| created: 10/03/00, modified: 04/17/09 |
| Should developed countries cancel the debts of the poorest nations? |
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| Devolution |
| created: 06/24/01, modified: 08/28/09 |
| Is devolution (in Scotland and Wales) to be regretted? (UK specific) |
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| Dollarization |
| created: 01/04/03, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should countries change their official currency to the U.S. dollar? |
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| Drug Patent Laws |
| created: 10/13/02, modified: 10/13/02 |
| Should the pharmaceutical patenting system be liberalised? |
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| Education Vouchers |
| created: 11/13/02, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should a voucher system be used to introduce choice and competition between schools? |
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| Environmentally Linked Aid |
| created: 06/30/00, modified: 04/07/09 |
| Should developed countries force developing countries to protect the environment by making it a condition of aid? |
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| Estate Tax |
| created: 05/28/08, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should there be a tax on property at the time of death? |
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| EU Constitution |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 02/20/09 |
| Should the European Union (EU) adopt a Constitution? |
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| EU Council of Ministers (EU), Voting by |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 02/20/09 |
| Should all remaining areas of unanimous decision-making be replaced by majority decision making in the European Union’s Council of Ministers? |
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| EU President, Direct Election of |
| created: 08/14/02, modified: 08/14/02 |
| Given the EU’s recent expansion and growth as an international body, is it time it had a directly elected leader? |
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| EU Working Language |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 02/20/09 |
| Should the EU introduce one working language? |
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| European Defence Force |
| created: 08/08/00, modified: 04/09/09 |
| Should the European Union have its own standing army? |
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| European Federalism |
| created: 09/12/00, modified: 04/12/09 |
| Should the European Union become a federal superstate, with consequent loss of national sovereignty for member countries? |
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| European Parliament, Powers of |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 02/20/09 |
| Should the European Parliament be given greater powers in the European Union (EU)? |
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| European Union Expansion |
| created: 08/21/00, modified: 04/11/09 |
| Should the EU expand to include all those European states which wish to join? |
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| European Union: New Members |
| created: 09/17/03, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should the countries of Central and South-East Europe join the European Union? |
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| Extremist Political Parties, Banning of |
| created: 08/14/02, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should extremist political parties be banned from standing for political office? Does their right to have their say outweigh the harm and offence that they cause? |
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| Fat Tax |
| created: 02/01/04, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should there be a tax on fatty foods? |
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| Federal Government |
| created: 11/07/00, modified: 08/19/09 |
| Is a confederation the best way to run national or supra-national affairs? |
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| Flat Tax |
| created: 10/13/02, modified: 10/13/02 |
| Are flat taxes the best system? |
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| Gangsta Rap, Censorship of |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 02/14/09 |
| Should the government censor lyrics of songs that are violent or expletive, for example “gangsta” rap? |
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| George W. Bush |
| created: 05/03/01, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Is George W. Bush good for America, and for the wider world? |
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| Global Warming: Is More Action Needed? |
| created: 07/04/00, modified: 04/09/09 |
| Although still a controversial subject, there is a growing consensus that global climate changes are being caused by environmental pollution, especially by greenhouse gases. Do we need to take more urgent action to halt this trend? |
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| Governments bailouts |
| created: 01/09/10, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should governments ever bail out private corporations facing bankruptcy? |
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| Greenhouse Gas: Trading
of Quotas |
| created: 07/04/00, modified: 04/09/09 |
| Should countries be allowed to buy greenhouse gas quotas from other countries and so, in effect, pay for the right to pollute more? Or should polluters simply be heavily taxed if they exceed their own quotas? |
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| Grey Imports |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 02/06/09 |
| Should retailers be allowed to import for resale “grey” goods from abroad? |
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| Harmonisation of Taxation within the European Union |
| created: 09/12/00, modified: 04/12/09 |
| Should the EU further restrict the powers of its member states to set their own tax rates? Should proposed harmonisation measures be passed by majority voting or remain subject to national vetoes? |
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| Hate Crimes |
| created: 09/17/03, modified: 09/17/03 |
| Should acts of hate be criminalized? What acts should be considered hate crimes? |
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| Health Care, Universal |
| Debatabase Junior Topic |
| created: 04/10/08, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should the United States introduce a universal health care system? |
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| House of Lords: Reform [UK] |
| created: 10/02/00, modified: 04/14/09 |
| Should the House of Lords continue in its present form? Or should it become a partly or entirely elected chamber? |
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| Human Rights |
| created: 04/02/02, modified: 04/02/02 |
| Do Human Rights exist? What are they? Why do we have them? |
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| Iceland, join the EU |
| created: 05/26/09, modified: 05/26/09 |
| Should Iceland apply to join the European Union? And should the EU fast-track an Icelandic application to let the North Atlantic country in as soon as possible? |
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| Identity Cards |
| created: 10/02/00, modified: 08/16/09 |
| Should everyone have to carry an identity card? |
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| Identity Cards, introduce |
| Debatabase Junior Topic |
| created: 02/23/07, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should governments introduce identity cards and require each citizen to carry one? |
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| Impact of Free Trade |
| created: 04/02/02, modified: 06/21/05 |
| Will free trade benefit third world countries? Does it harm developed countries? Could it serve a universal good? Is free trade a realistic goal? |
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| International Criminal Court |
| created: 02/19/02, modified: 06/20/05 |
| Should the United States or any other State continue to reject the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Is the ICC both dangerous to democracy and doomed to fail? |
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| Internet, a force for Democracy? |
| created: 06/04/07, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Has the global spread of the internet aided democratisation, increased freedom and reduced human rights abuses, or is it at best ineffective and at worst a weapon in the hands of repressive governments? |
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| Internment |
| created: 02/01/04, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should governments have the power to intern suspects without trial? |
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| Islam, Fear of |
| created: 05/03/01, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Is Islam, especially as embodied in its militant forms, something to be feared as a threat to global peace and stability? |
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| Ivory Trading |
| created: 11/02/00, modified: 08/12/09 |
| Should the present international ban on trading elephant ivory be lifted? |
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| Kosovo, Independence for |
| created: 01/04/03, modified: 01/04/03 |
| Should Kosovo become an independent state? Or should it remain a part of Serbia within the Serbia-Montenegro federation, but with some autonomy? |
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| Kurdish Independence |
| created: 01/04/03, modified: 01/04/03 |
| Should the Kurds finally be granted their own sovereign homeland? Or should they be content with greater autonomy within existing states? |
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| Legalise vs Ban |
| created: 01/18/09, modified: 01/18/09 |
| How far should the government interfere in people’s private lives? Should activities that many people think are wrong still be legal? |
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| Mandatory Retirement |
| created: 11/02/00, modified: 08/12/09 |
| Should the government enforce a mandatory retirement age? Is there an age when one is "past it"?! |
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| Means Testing for Benefits |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 02/04/09 |
| Should government benefit programmes be subject to means testing? |
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| Migration |
| created: 01/04/03, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Is large-scale migration, especially from the developing world to developed countries, a force for good? Should it be encouraged or do both developed and developing countries have an interest in restricting the flow of migrants? |
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| Minimum Wage |
| created: 10/13/02, modified: 10/13/02 |
| Should minimum wages be instituted? |
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| Myanmar (Burma) |
| created: 11/07/00, modified: 11/07/00 |
| Should international sanctions against Myanmar (Burma) be lifted? |
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| NAFTA |
| created: 08/14/02, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Is a large North American free trade bloc a laudable project? Should it be supported, or is free trade in this area a curse rather than a blessing? |
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| NASA, Government funding for |
| created: 06/12/08, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should the National Aeronautics and space administration (NASA) be government funded? |
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| National Lotteries |
| created: 11/02/00, modified: 07/23/09 |
| Should national lotteries be abolished? |
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| Nationalism |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 01/10/09 |
| Is nationalism always a force for bad, or can it sometimes bring benefits? |
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| NATO, Expansion of |
| created: 02/19/02, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should NATO Expand to the East ? Will the proposed NATO expansion consolidate or eliminate stability in Europe ? |
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| Nazi War Criminals |
| created: 11/03/00, modified: 08/13/09 |
| Should we continue to prosecute Nazi war criminals? |
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| New Labour Landslide [UK, 1997] |
| created: 11/03/00, modified: 11/03/00 |
| Specifically, was the 1997 New Labour Landslide good for Britain? Generally, are the ‘landslide’ majorities sometimes produced in first-past-the-post elections good for democracy? |
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| Northern Ireland |
| created: 06/24/01, modified: 06/24/01 |
| Is the Good Friday Agreement the best way forward for Northern Ireland? |
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| Outsourcing |
| created: 09/12/05, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Is outsourcing (and “offshoring”) a positive phenomenon? |
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| Overpopulation and Contraception |
| created: 10/02/00, modified: 04/13/09 |
| Is there a global crisis of overpopulation? Is so, is increased use of contraception the solution? |
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| Oxbridge, Abolition of [UK] |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 12/28/08 |
| Should the college fee be abandoned and the special privileges of Oxford and Cambridge be revoked? |
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| People Power |
| created: 05/17/03, modified: 05/17/03 |
| Is ‘people power’ a legitimate and valuable means of shaping public policy? |
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| Performance-Related Pay |
| created: 10/27/00, modified: 05/17/09 |
| Should professionals be paid according to their performance? |
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| Politics and Special Interests |
| Debatabase Junior Topic |
| created: 06/18/07, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Are special interests damaging American politics? Should special interest groups be banned from giving campaign donations and from lobbying politicians for their causes? |
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| Primaries in US Elections |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 11/27/08 |
| Should the state ‘primary’ selection process for party nominees for the US Presidency be abandoned? |
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| Protectionism |
| created: 09/17/03, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should governments favour a country’s industries by means of protectionist measures? |
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| Recall elections |
| created: 10/29/09, modified: 10/29/09 |
| Should voters be able to pass remove elected representatives from office through recall elections? |
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| Referendums |
| created: 10/03/00, modified: 04/17/09 |
| Should the use of referendums be increased? |
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| Road Charging |
| created: 07/20/02, modified: 07/20/02 |
| Is road charging the solution to congestion problems? |
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| Rural Development |
| created: 02/28/07, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should rural areas maintain their traditional agricultural role? |
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| Russian Oligarchs, Taming |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 11/21/08 |
| Should the power of Russia's rich and influential business leaders be curbed by the state? |
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| Salary Capping |
| created: 11/06/00, modified: 08/17/09 |
| Should a mandatory maximum salary be imposed by governments? |
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| Schengen Agreement |
| created: 01/15/06, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should the Schengen Agreement be dissolved? |
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| Scottish Independence |
| created: 11/03/00, modified: 08/12/09 |
| Should Scotland become an independent nation? |
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| Second Home Ownership |
| created: 12/30/06, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should a tax be imposed on second home ownership? |
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| Security vs. Liberty |
| created: 11/13/02, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Are security measures justified to the extent that civil liberties can be sacrificed? |
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| Self-defense |
| created: 09/12/05, modified: 10/28/05 |
| Should the law punish those who use force to defend themselves against criminal acts? |
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| Social Europe |
| created: 12/01/06, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Whether a Social Europe can be maintained under current economic pressures |
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| State Funding of Political Parties |
| created: 11/06/00, modified: 08/17/09 |
| Should political parties be funded by the state rather than by individual and corporate donations? |
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| Taiwan |
| created: 05/03/01, modified: 05/03/01 |
| Should Taiwan declare independence? |
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| Taliban |
| created: 02/19/02, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Was the Taliban regime in Afghanistan uniquely terrible? |
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| Tourism |
| created: 07/20/02, modified: 07/20/02 |
| Do the benefits of tourism outweigh the costs? |
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| Trade vs Aid |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 10/30/08 |
| Should the developed world focus on enabling trade or donating aid as a way to help the developing world? |
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| Two-Party System |
| created: 09/17/03, modified: 09/17/03 |
| Is a two-party system preferable to a multi-party system? |
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| U.S. Imperialism |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Is the United States of America imperialist? |
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| UN Security Council Veto |
| created: 10/04/01, modified: 12/27/09 |
| Should we press for the abolition of the power of veto held by the permanent members of the Security Council? |
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| Universal Jurisdiction |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should any court have jurisdiction over offences in other countries? |
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| US Presidency, Two-Term Limits on |
| created: 05/17/03, modified: 05/17/03 |
| Should the constitutional limit preventing US Presidents from serving more than two terms be repealed? |
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| US Role in World Stability |
| created: 08/07/01, modified: 08/28/09 |
| Is the USA a threat to world stability or a political force for good? |
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| Vietnam War |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 12/29/08 |
| Should the USA have become involved in conflict in Vietnam? |
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| Voting Age, Lowering |
| Debatabase Junior Topic |
| created: 02/22/07, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should the age at which people gain the right to vote be lowered to 16? |
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| War Powers for UK parliament |
| created: 01/03/08, modified: 11/30/-1 |
| Should the prerogative power to commit British armed forces to armed conflict abroad be removed from the UK Prime Minister and placed instead in parliament? |
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| Water Privatisation |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 12/29/08 |
| Should water be treated as an economic good and managed accordingly? |
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| Western Relations with North Korea |
| created: 11/03/00, modified: 06/21/05 |
| Should the West establish diplomatic relations with North Korea ? Should the West lift all remaining trade sanctions against North Korea? |
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| Women in Combat |
| created: 12/10/05, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should women be allowed to serve in combat roles in the armed forces? |
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| Women in Parliament |
| created: 01/28/03, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should the numbers of women in the legislature be raised artificially? |
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| Workfare |
| created: 10/04/01, modified: 12/27/09 |
| Should unemployed people be made to work for their welfare money? |
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| Working Mothers |
| created: 11/30/-1, modified: 12/29/08 |
| Should mothers stay at home to raise their children? |
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| World Government |
| created: 01/04/03, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should we be governed by a "world government", with the United Nations Assembly becoming a directly elected parliament? Should nation-states give up more of their sovereignty to supranational institutions? |
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| WTO, IMF and World Bank: UN or US? |
| created: 01/15/06, modified: 07/24/06 |
| Should the global economic institutions come under UN control and thereby reduce US influence over them? |
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| Zero Tolerance |
| created: 04/23/01, modified: 08/24/09 |
| Is zero tolerance policing (strict and set responses to all crimes by police) a good way of reducing crime? |
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