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This affirmative features some of the best evidence on the topic, with advantages that are both germane to poverty and designed to answer most process/advantage counterplans. This file includes responses to common T violations, case arguments, disadvantages, and counterplans.
 
The plan rules on the grounds of the Airey v. Ireland decision of the European Court of Human Rights that all persons living in poverty are entitled to legal counsel for civil matters. The argument is that citing a foreign court enhances our Supreme Court's credibility to engage in the global judicial dialogue which shapes court systems around the world. This credibility is necessary to sustain international human rights movements, combat proliferation, strengthen democratic movements, and even solve for global warming. The other advantage (specific to legal counsel) is that persons living poverty that are at risk of housing foreclosure need civil counsel to protect against predatory lending. These foreclosures risk crippling the global economy.
 
 

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This is a comprehensive free trade good/bad file. It includes extensions, blocks, and responses to every major argument in both directions. This file will be *useful* given the coming free trade agenda.

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This is a comprehensive free trade good/bad file. It includes extensions, blocks, and responses to every major argument in both directions. This file will be useless given the coming free trade agenda.

This is a blocked out violation, with carded frontlines to major responses. This violation argues that the aff can only provide services through the social service staff. This file includes evidence (exclusive definitions) that list out exactly what those services are.

This is a blocked out Courts CP that works against all affs that either use another agent or don't specify. It includes:
- Very good generic solvency evidence for social services AND specific solvency cards for major affirmatives
- Well-developed competition frontline for affs that don't specify an agent
- Extensive frontlines to major responses, including solvency arguments and disadvantages to the CP
- A blocked out ASPEC violation to garner competition
- Theory frontlines
 
This counterplan works very well with politics as a net benefit - so it works in conjunction with the thursday file(s)

Obama's political capital is low and he doesn't have the muscle necessary to push through the peace process while holding off opposition at home. The plan is a huge legislative victory out of left field that re-energizes him politically and gives him the capital necessary to complete brokering the peace process. The peace process is bad because it makes Israel vulnerable to a first strike and eventual nuclear war.

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Clinton and Gates are pushing hard for the RRW as part of a broad nuclear agreement with the hawks. Obama is using his political capital to block this development but he's on the verge of giving in. Plan dishes Obama a devastating blow and tanks the limited credibility he has been banking on to keep RRW proponents at bay. RRW is bad because it crushes our nuclear credibility at a time when potential proliferators are looking to us to take the anti-nuclear lead. We would not only have to test for RRW, but it would be the type of weapon we'd realistically use.This is a new scenario that has gotten far less coverage than staple agenda items like Health Care and Climate.

This file includes various definitions of different words/phrases in the poverty topic and a few sample shells.

The states counterplan will be a staple negative argument on this topic. This is a comprehensive federalism good impact file.