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National Forensic Association Lincoln-Douglas debate (NFA-LD), the collegiate Lincoln-Douglas debate, uses one resolution per academic year, and is a one-on-one form of policy debate. [ 44 ] Though established as an alternative to policy debate, there has been a strong movement to embrace certain techniques that originated in policy debate.
Pacificus-Helvidius Debates; Panalo; Participation of Ukrainians in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising; Porter–MacKenzie debate; Pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand theories; Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935
The series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas for U.S. Senate were true, face-to-face debates, with no moderator; the candidates took it in turns to open each debate with a one-hour speech, then the other candidate had an hour and a half to rebut, and finally the first candidate closed the debate with a half-hour response.
In a debate, opposing arguments are put forward to argue for opposing viewpoints. Subcategories This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.
Presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon for the 1960 election in the United States.. A leaders' debate or presidential debate is a public debate held during a general election campaign, where the candidates expose their political opinions and public policy proposals, and criticism of them, to potential voters.
Competitive debate, also known as forensics or speech and debate, is an activity in which two or more people take positions on an issue and are judged on how well they defend those positions. The activity has been present in academic spaces in the United States since the colonial period .
This category is for articles about debates between U.S. presidential candidates, and also for other articles directly related to those debates.In addition, it can be used for articles about debates between U.S. vice presidential candidates, as those debates are adjuncts to the presidential debates.
Great Debates (international relations), a series of disagreements between international relations scholars; The Great Debate, a national discussion in the United Kingdom about state education, touched off by a 1976 speech by Prime Minister James Callaghan; Great Debate (Cuba), a debate in Cuba about how to transform the economy from 1962-1965.