Final LD Topic List for 2016–2017 Released

Salt Lake City, UT — The LD wording committee has released the final list of topics for 2016–2017. Voting will take place over the summer.

Discuss your favorites (or least favorites) below.

LD Topic List 2016–2017

Resolved: The United States ought to become party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Resolved: The United States ought to limit qualified immunity for police officers.

Resolved: A just government ought to prioritize civil liberties over national security.

Resolved: The United States ought to end its provision of arms to foreign insurgents.

Resolved: The United States has a moral obligation to adopt a single payer health care system.

Resolved: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech.

Resolved: The United States government ought to curtail the Commander-in-Chief powers of the President.

Resolved: In the United States, national service ought to be compulsory.

Resolved: A just government ought to abolish intellectual property protections for genetic resources.

Resolved: The United States ought to guarantee the right to housing.