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Public Forum Debate is a form of competitive debate where debaters use their evidence and impacts to outweigh the benefits and harms of the opposing side. The topics for public forum have to do with current-day events relating to public policy. Debaters work in pairs of two, and speakers alternate for every speech.
Public forum debate is a 2v2 style of debate with topics that change every two months in the fall and every month in the spring. [45] The event was developed by Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, specifically so that there could be an event focused on being accessible to laypeople. Public Forum debates tend to focus on current events issues and ...
A traditional public forum is where speech/expression is supported by the first amendment and when the government's ability to regulate speech is reduced like a sidewalk or state park. Whereas a designated public forum is “for use by the public as a place for expressive activity”, like social media.
The debate over debates allows candidates to distract from issues that really matter “The debates themselves are shaping up to be major campaign issues. It’s tedious, and it does not serve the ...
Cases about public policy are among the most common cases on APDA. They include common public policy debates (school vouchers, term limits, euthanasia, capital punishment, race-based affirmative action) as well as more unconventional ideas (mandatory organ donation, proxy voting for children, private criminal prosecution, and innumerable others).
4 Public Forum Debate Champions and Runner Ups. ... 2024: Spencer Swickle – American Heritage Broward (FL); Justin Wen – Strake Jesuit College Preparatory (TX)
Jan 18, 2024; Columbus, Ohio, USA; John Rutan, a local defense attorney, answers questions from the audience during the first debate between candidates running for Franklin County Prosecutor.
Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump, 928 F.3d 226 (2nd Cir. 2019), was a Second Circuit Court of Appeals case on the use of social media as a public forum.The plaintiffs, Philip N. Cohen, Eugene Gu, Holly Figueroa O'Reilly, Nicholas Pappas, Joseph M. Papp, Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, and Brandon Neely, were a group of Twitter users blocked by then-U.S. President Donald Trump's personal ...