Policy

• Establish the resolution.
  
  • Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States.
• Research and find evidence.
  
  • Who said it-their qualifications-when they said it. Only read the last name and the year, e.g. Zizek '01
• Define.
  
• Establish harms of the resolution. Harms are what is wrong. Most cases have no less then three harms.
• Or establish advantages in lieu of harms.
  
• Move onto inherency, why your harms are not being solved in the status quo.
  
• Form your plan. The most common form of a plan is fairly simple. Just say explicitly what the United States Federal Government should do. We reserve the right to clarify"
• THUS THE PLAN: The United States federal government should permanently expand the authorized end-strength of the United States Army by 100,000 troops. The United States federal government should then establish a 15-month active-duty enlistment option for the United States Army guaranteeing post-graduate financial aid for enlistees. We reserve the right to clarify.
• And then establish solvency. This is how your plan solves for its harms. This also needs evidence, and it must be correlated directly to your harms. If say, one of your harms was AIDS in Africa is getting out of hand. You need to have a solvency card that says your plan will decrease AIDS.