What We're Working On Pt 4

Claire McKinney, assistant coach at the Kinkaid School and Thomas Kelly High School, is working on the bread and butter of the resolution: avoiding talking about energy.

One of the crucial debates in alternative energy is who should be primarily responsible in developing and implementing new strategies. Since wind farms probably aren't appropriate in Alaska and solar energy would perform pretty poorly in Seattle, perhaps one nation-wide strategy for all states is a bit foolhardy. As such, I will be working on a States Counterplan with a federalism net benefit. There will be two versions of the counterplan: a devolution of federal powers counterplan, where the Supreme Court, using the Lopez ruling as a precedent, will devolve the power over energy decisions to the states and the states will do the plan. The other version would just have the 50 states do the plan. In both, allowing states to make their own decisions will strengthen federalist principles which, as everyone knows, is the only way to encourage international resolution of ethnic conflicts. This will be one of the core positions this year, so learning how to debate it on the affirmative and the negative will give you a huge jump early on in the season.