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• Find me reasons why James K. Polk is not a good president.

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• My opponent does not seem to understand the basic structure of the U.S government. The Southern States agreed to follow the Constitution, and that was their choice, that means that they have to listen to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court stated that they can't leave so that…
• The Supreme Court, which determines what is Constitutional and what is not stated succession is unconstitutional, therefore the South did not have the right to leave the union. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org... http://www.law.cornell.edu...

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• I stand by my statements ... it is aluma's turn to show why I am wrong or at least give up and admit to my brilliance; if he beleives it exists.
• Well well well. Not the angle of attack I expected, but an interesting one nonetheless As for your allegations that the potential effects dozens of years of the future, that could not be foreseen, somehow alter the morality and justification of wars fought over other issues not…

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• Thank you for your previous arguments. I will start by rebutting your first paragraph. Yes, I did originally mention morality. If you had quoted from the rest of the sentence you would have shown that it was a side point in my sentence. The full quote was, "Dropping the bomb…
• Thank you for your previous arguments. I will now start my rebuttal. Firstly, you mention that dropping the bomb wasn't moral. It killed over 100,000 people, and affectively injured people in future generations. The argument though isn't whether dropping the bomb was moral. It…

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• I do agree with you on a few points. I agree that both Japanese and Italian aggression were also causes to WW2 and I also agree that Germany started the war. I don't think that the Great Depression, at least if you are referring to the one in America, was really a cause of the…
• When the first World War ended the four great powers of the winning side sent their leaders to draft the Treaty of Versailles. The United States, Britain, France, and Italy were each represented respectively by President Woodrow Wilson, Prime Minister David Llyod George, Prime…

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• - Ok even worse than. Tell me how a man in the 16th century knew nearly 30, 000 words and invented 1, 700 words. Words that we still use today like addiction, Assassination, Belongings, Admirable, Or accommodation. - While I did find that John Shakespeare was a bailiff and that…
• - Regarding your first point I will concede on the point that Shakespeare wasn't educated at all and I am sorry for my mistake. However as that article points out, There is no official record for Shakespeare attending a school. Even if he did attend a grammar school, It is…

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• To start off with, MY OPPONENT HAS VIOLATED THE TERMS OF THIS DEBATE THUS FORFEITING. However I will continue the debate...1) Creating The EPA Nixon founded the environmental protection agency, he wrote "As concern with the condition of our physical environment has intensified,…
• By Excepting, Opponent agrees to the following layout:R1: Acceptance/Definitions R2: Cases (No Rebuttal to Opponents Case)R3: RebuttalR4: Finalizing arguments(No New Arguements)Since the Resolution states "On Balance" Evidence and Arguments will be weighted against one another…

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• Conclusion There are two ways you can interpret this debate: Policy or passion. The title of this debate is "Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidency" and I am proudly on the Pro side. When it comes to policy, the Johnson presidency may not have been satisfactory. But when it comes to…
• Grandbudda, I will be going on vacation soon and will have limited time to be online. Therefore, please do not count it against me if I forfeit a round. Please make a detailed argument and I will respond as soon as I can. Thank you.

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• First of all, I want to apologize for not addressing more of your points in my second argument. I had to post my response rather hurriedly, because I had to volunteer at the library. I hope to make up for it this time. As you said, I'll have to do better than that. I think the…
• You are correct in saying that whether McCarthy was literally "right" in his accusations is not the only issue that should be coming into play. His methods were really what determined the impression he made on people, which eventually led to his downfall. You suggest that I…

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• "So my counterpart exaggerates. I don't know why he's telling me that he was "Doomed" Rommel was doomed because he was beaten from Egypt and was recieving little support from Hitler. He outran his own logistics that he was in charge of. " Patton was benched because of his…
• Erwin Rommel, while a great tactician, never learned the most important lesson in warfare. Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics. Ike was perhaps the best manager of all time. Not the best general. You bring up the Operation Avalanche. The use of paratroopers…

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• Alright I am going to go, sentence my sentence on your arguments. "I know it makes me uncomfortable to sleep in a dorm with a gay guy. ." >> I am sorry. I know it does not make me uncomfortable. I realize that this will make some people uncomfortable. However the idea of your…
• Note: I will be using the word "gay" as a catch all for LGBT for the soul purpose that I don't actually distinguish in my own mind or even care. DADT, short for "don't ask don't tell", is a public law put into effect in '93 by the Clinton administration. It was supposed to be…

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• Over the course of the next few rounds, it will be my intention to demonstrate the plausible deniablity, and immediate possibility that an alternate means of the alleged "Titanic" sinking might be found. It shall be demonstrated that the means, ability, and crew expectactions…
• This is part of my 40 dollar reply segment. So, the immediate answer I have is that my opponent has constructed a narrative that they would prefer to debate, not specific to the argument at hand. Look, we are not asking for Bruce Wayne and Batman to be in the same area, here.…

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• Alright finally we can get to it
• Maybe you shouldn't have put so many rounds.

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• Now to look at the colonization of North America from a different viewpoint, the viewpoint of the Native Americans. I will be arguing that England should not have colonized North America because they had no right to do so and, in hind sight, led to the death of millions of…
• I accept this debate and will be arguing that England, and later The United States, did not have the right to colonize the land (The Americas). I also agree to use definitions from dictionary.com and the Rules/Format provided by Con.

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• I am still waiting.
• No comment.

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• It is once again a real honor to debate with someone like you. You have always proved yourself to be a tough opponent and I thank you for that. I. The GospelsI. The Nativity As Christmas draws nigh, I would like to expand on the nativity of Jesus Christ. It is very clear that…
• I. IntroductionI would like to thankmy friend for debating this topic with me. Given the last debate, I can tell this will be tough. II. ThesisIn spite of the Christian argument that says the Bible does not contradict known history, the New Testament is an unreliable historical…

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• They needed someones help and we came to their rescue. We freed the Iraqi's from an extremely tyrannical government, and saved thousands, if not millions of lives.
• No one really thinks that Saddam Hussein caused 9/11. The invasion was done to prevent Hussein from committing more acts of terrorism in his country.

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• The Arab Spring was not a complete success, but it was more of a victory than a failure. The A.S. fought, in most cases successfully, against social, economic and political injustices. However, we will first define the Arab Spring as a series of demonstrations and civil unrests…

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• You have failed to make a first argument. That will count against you. Please proceed to actually have an argument for the next round or be automatically disqualified. On another note, all World War One did was lead to the second World War which really didn't change much, in…
• You were only supposed to state acceptance. 1) Why or how was the war needed? If we didn't have it, Germany would have lived in ruins and then some new rule would have came in overtime and changed things. All WWI did was bring Germany under embargo and suppression, causing…

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• Lets get something straight here. In the last round, I was in no way trying to justify plagiarizism. Instead, I was trying to explain why I did NOT plagiarize in the first place. So let me elaborate.(wikipedia) Plagiarism is the "wrongful [borrowing]" and "stealing and…
• Unfortunately, someone has decided to make a one-sided smearing campaign against me to make it seem like I was intentionally taking someone else's work and passing it off as my own when it is not the case at all. In the first round, although I cited where I got my facts to my…

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• That must be a different website and an older one to because there are multiple DNA links that link it to Amelia's
• According to history.com, a few years ago an officers on the island found a skeleton and biologist have linked it to be hers. And Nikumaroro wasn't that far away from where she was supposed to land.

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• During WW2, the United States took the pacific trust territories from Japan. 3 years later, the trust territories were formally handed over to the US. The United States continued to administer them for over 40 years, before finally releasing them to be on there own. After…
• 1. Acceptance/Introduction only.I am of the opinion that we should annex or exercise greater control over the old pacific trust territories. These countries include the Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Once annexed,…

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• Critique of Historical Relativism The Problem of Lack of Direct AccessPost Modern RelativismFor Weak Postmodern Relativism, I may be mistaken about seeing x as a pencil but I can discover my mistakes. Texts and artifacts are reconstructions limited by data, the historian isn't…
• Thank you Anaxa for the kind words! :-)Critique of Historical Relativism Lack of Direct AccessAnti-Realism of ConstructionismThere are two types of Constructionism, Methodological Constructionism which is a thesis for how the historical past should be regarded as what the…

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• I ask that my opponent lets his last debate round run out of time so it doesn't show up on the main page. I'll direct people here to vote for him.
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• My opponent must have seen his mistake. He has given up. enjoy some music. http://www.youtube.com...
• My opponent has, forfeited his round and is trying to start another topic. If he would like to debate if the Telgana state formation is a good idea, I encourage him to start a new debate clarifying this. Thank you for this debate.

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• very good and detailed arguments, zarul- I am impressed nonetheless, I will still say that not only was her assassination highly predictable, I beleive actually she wanted to be martyred. Putting aside the 1 mph caravan through a huge crowd (where you make a false assumption…
• read the other debate- do you want me to repeat myself? fine here (1) they bombed her the day she showed up, traveling in a caravon at 1 mph- in a place like PAK , that is suicide (2) she presented a HUGE ongoing secutity risk (3) she was a woman- thats enough alone to get you…

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• Uhh.. not sure what to do in this round now.This is my third time debating it, because I have to give a presentation on Woodrow Wilson in Advanced Placement United States History (APUSH). My friend is actually doing the same president, but she is presenting him with the biases…
• IntroThose who assess the quality of presidents are often impressed by communication skills and charisma. Both of those characteristics account for President Woodrow Wilson's standing in several lists of good presidents. However, Wilson, like other presidents should be judged…

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• The reason I created this debate was that I lost this debate before. I thought I did a pretty good job, but my partner did much better. After this debate, it is clear to me that I could have won easily in that debate. Good job Con for offering some strong points in round one.…
• I extend my arguments.

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• I will finish addressing con's points from Round 1. Con states that "people who just barely made it out heard explosions from the towers before they started to fall down". Lets not forget that "explosions" does not always equal "explosives". There was after all a massive fire…
• Sadly I could not address every point con makes as I only have 10000 characters. I'll try next round though. Links at bottom. Con states that the towers were brought down "in the same style as a controlled demolition". While at quick glance this might seem true, if you ever…

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• Ninja It says clans developed different codes but only disgrace from those around them. Which means even though they were looked down upon they actually had a morale code based around zazenjutsu. This means they would never work for Europe or china or even Korea who was having…
• Thank you for your reply Ninja No matter what you say ninja had a strict moral code and would never work for enemy soldiers(. http://www.pvv.ntnu.no...) Wikipedia is the most unreliable source there is. Ninja were shadow tactitions and swore fealty to daimyo not paid to work…

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• Since this is the last round, I will attempt to summarize most of the main points brought up as well as answer my opponent's questions.1) ReusabilityI pointed out in my opening argument, TIME magazine's analogy between the Shuttle and the Soyuz: If the Shuttles were business…
• My opponent states that due to the wording of the resolution, he wants to argue not just about the Soyuz but also other Russian spacecraft that operated during that period, I accept his terms.This means that I will consider other Russian spacecraft besides the Soyuz that…

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• Rebuttals:Firstly, I would like to apologise to any readers for not correctly editing part of the first witness testimony...I was very tired when I edited that and forgot to use the quotation marks and writing style.**************************Con states that he has no problem…
• Accepted. As Con has stated that the Pro should begin arguments in the first round--I will outline my opening case now.Although he has clarified the terms of the debate--he failed to provide a definition for 'responsible', which in a debate like this is pretty crucial. The key…

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• I agree to the above.
• 80% Of your first argument was copy pasted from the same website, and I am not going to bother fighting a copy pasted text wall.

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• Please don't forfeit... It's losing all the fun. Your turn.
• The arguments that my opponent here has come up with, is that: 1. The high taxes were killing them 2. The British were not "nice" and they wanted to make life hard for Americans and take their freedom. First, their first argument did not even stand as an argument, because it…

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• In the documentary we watched it said that biologist said that all signs concluded it was not Amelia's body.
• If Amelia landed on the island of nikumaroro they would have found her plane on the Island

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• My opponent makes the argument that that if Germany had won the Battle of the Marine, the Schiflien plan would have worked out. However, at this point in history the Shiflien Plan had already failed! The French Army was not cut off and had redeployed to face the German…
• Schlieffen Plan was formulated by the german high command as a way to knock France out of the war quickly by avoiding the fortified French border and striking through Belgium, however it was deeply flawed and rooted in outdated tactics. A better plan would have been to defend…

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• Well, Yesterday the debate came to an official end, But now it's saying that I need to post an argument for round 3. I'm not sure how the rounds got mixed up, But I'm fairly confident in what I've presented because I used documented facts.
• I'm new here, And I'm not familiar with the layout, But that was just a monologue, Not an argument. My initial debate, Which made the other guy forfeit, More so pertained to the country's history within the 50 states. The additional information was just an expansion after…

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• Exactly! People are looking too much into it. It is simple. There is proof that it happened anyway. I highly doubt that they were captured or anything like that. I also could see if they crash landed on a different island but them getting captured or them being spys is not very…
• Oh haha i don't think they were captured or anything like that. Makes more sense that they just ran out of gas. Totally agree with u too

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• beem0r I understaand and respect your point of view. I was not at all implying that all biblical peoples were African, only a large number of them. In fact I, myself am not completely sure that Abraham himself was of African ethnicity, for it is commenly accepted that he bore…
• Just picture it. your walking through a meuseam and you stop to look at a very peculiar painting. Upon further examination you recognize it to be a portrait of George Wahington, but there are a few problems with the way he is portrayed. Instead of having wooden teeth, a white…

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• Obviously I have won the argument because I am not asking if there were alternatives rather I was asking if it was necessary and I believe invasion would have killed alt more Japanese as well as Americans diplomacy was not an option because the Japanese were actually not…
• The use of nuclear bombs on Japan in WW2 were completely necessary. First of all if we did not use the bomb the war would have continued therefore leading to the death of more Americans. It seemed to not matter to the Japanese when they participated in Pearl Harbor. Or perhaps…

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• I forfeit. Victory goes to Con.
• 1. There were enough Pro-Secession politicians to allow the South to Secede. And all of these politicians were elected by the people of the Southern States, meaning that enough Southerners were in favor of secession for it to happen. Most Southerners were in favor of slavery,…

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• My opponent has had all of her points refuted, and has failed to refute my two points concerning utilitarianism and an international show of force. Vote Pro. AFFIRMED.
• First of all, you don't want to say "Affirmed" at the end of your argument. Affirmed means you side PRO. You would want to say Negated or something to that effect... 1) On the Surrender of the Japanese. My opponent seems to ignore history. Regardless of the state of the…

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• First piece of evidence that Stalin was not a communist is that his ideology went against the original idea of communism because he was totalitarian http://en.m.wikipedia.org... http://www.merriam-webster.com... So if the original idea of communism isn't totalitarian than…
• I'll be arguing the position that Stalin wasn't a communist. Round one: acceptance Round two: debate Round three: debate Round four: conclusion

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• I thin that we are all forgetting Napoleon. He is the best military leader in history. He defined the terms of war and came up with tactics used by other military generals today and in the future.
• France is the the best country ad thus the have the best military.

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• Opposition from the people
• Physical limits

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• The corrupt nature of a country asking for repatriation is not the fact in isssue, and should not even be put forward as a reason for not repatriating the artefacts, there is in truth no country that does not have a level of corruptness(pardon me), some c
• We now have the resources to carry out such a move

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• "you've cleverly ..inserting the word "army" before "strength"- I agree a countries "strength" is the economic plus the army plus the natural resources. But in world WAR 2 ( theirs that word coming back) since it is a war i think it is appropriate to say the main "strength" of…
• Ok a lot of this stuff is ether your opinion (Russia had worse tech than the Americans) or info that does not show how strong their army was and u instead that the US made a lot of oil. In World WAR 2 i don't know maybe the ARMY STRENGTH is more important than the economic or…

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• The "Communist Manifesto" written by Marx and Engels is little more than a doctrine explaining why the whole world should engage in war. It spends a lot of time telling people what they should believe history really means and then upon the outcome of Marx's conclusions of all…
• "LET IT BE NOTED TO THOSE WHO ARE JUDGING BY WHAT THE RESOLUTION SAYS AND NOT WHAT THE PRO SAYS THE RESOLUTION MEANS THAT THE PRO HAS DROPPED MY ATTACKS BASED ON AN APPROPRIATE AND JUSTIFIED INTERPRETATION OF THE RESOLUTION. IF YOU ARE JUDGING BASED OFF OF THAT, THE CON SHOULD…

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• To answer my opponent's question about where I'm going with this, I'm saying that the demands of the treaty of Versailles were unfair to Germany. If you look back to what started the war you'll see that Germany did nothing except aid an ally. What really started the war was the…
• If the Treaty of Versailles hadn't made Germany suffer consequences for WWI, WWII wouldn't have been started by the Germans. My points are, Germany couldn't have a military, they had to pay reparations, and they couldn't be united with Austria

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• yeah but people were social in the 20th century but in the 21st century people are always on the phones and dont care about the environment or even socialize
• yes i agree life at the beginning 20th century was better