DUTIES OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE SPEAKERS
DUTIES OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE SPEAKERS (Comm. 40 class)
Prime Minister Constructive (PM) (Affirmative case) 5 minutes
Salutation
State resolution/proposition: “This House is arguing….”
Define terms
State your teams’ position/thesis: “The Government believes…..”
Introduce and build your case: develop need or problem (Use researched evidence to support your claims! Include all harms/ills, include inherency. Talk about significance in terms of qualitative and quantitative evidence.
Conclusion: summarize main points, restate Gov.’s position, ask for ballot.
(Remember to ask at least 2 Points of Information)
Leader of Opposition Constructive (LO) (Negative Case) 6 minutes
Salutation
State resolution/proposition
Accept or reject definition/s of PM’s terms
State your team’s position/thesis: “The Opposition believes….”
Refute/attack the PM’s argument point by point, attack his/her evidence and reasoning.
Introduce and build your own offcase. (Either defend the status quo and/or talk about how the PM does not really address the real need/problem. Use researched evidence to support your claims.)
Conclusion: summarize main points, restate Opp.’s position, ask for ballot.
(Remember to ask at least 2 Points of Information)
Member of Government Constructive (MG) (2nd Affirmative) 6 minutes
Salutation
Restate resolution and your team’s position.
Review and attack point by point the LO’s offcase.
Extend the PM’s case and defend the PM’s arguments.
Introduce and add your own arguments to the Government’s case using researched evidence. You can talk further about the problem, but make sure you come up with a reasonable solution. (Use all the planks involved: agency, mandates, enforcement, funding and staffing, advantages of your plan, and how it solves the problem.) Use evidence!
Conclusion: summarize main points, restate Gov.’s position, ask for ballot.
(Remember to ask at least 2 Points of Information)
Member of Opposition (MO) (2nd Negative Case) 6 minutes
Salutation
Restate resolution and your team’s position.
Review and attack point by point the MG’s case. Attack their plan for not meeting the need and not being workable. Discuss disadvantages of the affirmative case.
Defend the LO’s offcase.
Introduce and develop you own offcase using researched evidence.
Defend the status quo or come up with a counter plan including all the planks listed in the MG’s duties above.) Again, use researched evidence.
Conclusion: summarize main points, restate your team’s position, an ask for ballot.
Leader of Opposition Rebuttal 2 minutes
Point out most important contentions.
Emphasize and summarize your team’s key arguments.
Attack the need issue.
Point out arguments the Gov. team has overlooked or ignored.
Conclusion: Summarize points of your rebuttal, and make a final ballot appeal.
Prime Minister Rebuttal 3 minutes
Answer and attack LO’s key arguments.
Summarize main points you will develop in this rebuttal.
Rebuild Gov.’s case by answering the most important negative attacks on need, actuality, and desirability that you have time for.
Attack negative repairs case (in other words, why your plan is superior to the Opposition’s).
Conclusion: summarize main points and make your final ballot appeal.
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