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Title: Building Government Cases


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Building Government Cases
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Preliminary Steps
  • Follow critical decision making.
  • Analyze the proposition. Look at all
    alternatives with as much knowledge as you can
    find.
  • This way, you will have a realistic knowledge of
    the strengths and weaknesses of other
    alternatives. (We often assume that weaknesses
    in our case dont exist.
  • Modify your position to avoid weaknesses and
    maximize strengths
  • Identify the nature of the proposition.
  • Through your research and evidence, you will be
    required to establish adherence to your specific
    claims or main points.

3
Preliminary Steps
  • The Government team has the burden to support the
    resolution
  • The Government teams needs to define the terms of
    the resolution and provide the parameters for
    what the resolution means as a whole.
  • Just define the most important and abstract
    terms. If terms are vague, the Opposition might
    try to redefine the argument to their advantage
    to control the debate.
  • The Government team needs to present a debatable
    case.
  • Assess presumptions and burden of proof.
  • Your team has the burden of proof as you want to
    dispute the status quo.
  • Remember You can expect to find the decision
    makers (or House) presuming that what they now
    regard as policy will continue to be so regarded
    unless and until someone undertakes the burden of
    proving otherwise.

4
  • Both sides need to address the basic areas of
    whats ill or not working, who is to blame,
    whats the cure, who is the empowered agency, and
    the cost of the plan.
  • The Government team needs to address the problem
    before proposing a solution. Convince the
    audience that there is a problem or a need and
    then tell how your solution gives solvency.
  • The Government team must convince the audience
    that this problem matters and that its
    significant.
  • Create a sense of urgency by establishing the
    significance of the ill you have identified.
  • If the audience isnt convinced that the problem
    is important to them, you will have difficulty
    convincing them to your solution.

5
Blame
  • Once the Government team has established the ill
    and the degree of significance, now address the
    stock issue of blame.
  • Who or what is at fault?
  • Who or what causes the problem (the ill) that has
    been identified?
  • The Opposition will probably try to shift the
    blame for the ill to another causal factor.
  • To prevent this, you need to address the blame by
    convincing your audience that the blame lies with
    whatever.
  • Illegal immigration is a good example of various
    blaming. Whos to blame? The federal
    government? The economy? The immigrants
    themselves? Racists?

6
Inherency
  • This refers to the necessity for you, the
    advocate of the plan, to show that the
    problem/ill results from the system as it is.
  • Thus, the status quo is flawed and change is
    necessary to properly address the ill or problem.
  • The Government must prevent the Opposition from
    successfully arguing that other factors are
    primarily responsible for the problems/ills
    mentioned in the debate. If the Opposition can
    convince the judge/audience that fixing the
    system will not solve the problem, the Government
    team has lost the stock issue of inherency.
  • Government team must show that the ill is
    inherent in the present system.
  • Example Illegal immigration the Government
    team must show that there is something essential
    to the number of illegal immigrants and its
    relationship to U.S. citizens that create severe
    problems demanding our national (or state or
    local) attention.
  • Rebuttals would be that the U.S. needs illegal
    immigrants and that they do the work/jobs that
    citizens arent willing to do.

7
Inherency Barriers
  • What are the barriers in the status quo that keep
    the problem from getting solved?
  • Attitudinal
  • Physical
  • Economic
  • Political

8
Solution or Cure
  • This stock issue concerns the method or plan for
    addressing the ill.
  • Now that the audience understands the problem and
    its urgency, what should be done about it?
  • The Government teams needs to consider the degree
    of specificity you will offer.
  • Organize the solution into planks

9
Plank 1 Agency
  • Who is responsible for oversight and
    implementation of your plan?
  • Will it be now or existing government agencies
    such as the EPA, FCC, NASA, etc.
  • Will it be on a global, national, state, local
    scale?

10
Plank 2 Mandates
  • This explains what the agency will do.
  • Will laws be made or repealed?
  • Specific mandates are easier to enforce because
    they provide clear measures of what to do.

11
Plank 3 Time Frames
  • How long will the plan take?
  • How long before the plan can be implemented?

12
Plank 4 Funding
  • Who is going to pay for the plan?
  • How?

13
Plank 5 Enforcement
  • How will the plan be enforced?
  • Who is going to enforce it?
  • What will the punishment be if the new plan/law
    is not followed?

14
Plank 6 Cost
  • How will the current system be disrupted?
  • How much time will the solution take away from
    other activities and programs?
  • How much money will be taken away from other
    activities or programs?
  • What are the social costs?
  • What are the psychological costs?
  • What are the opportunity costs?
  • Example Reparation for African-Americans

15
Government Burdens In a Nutshell
  • Provide criteria/measuring stick to establish a
    problem/ill exists and change is needed.
  • Prove the resolution/proposition is true.
  • Define parameters of the argument (make sure
    there is clash/debatable).
  • Talk about stock issues and inherency.
  • (Ill, blame, cure, agency, cost)
  • Inherency barriers in the status quo that keeps
    from solving the problem attitudinal, physical,
    economic, political.

16
  • Have a solution. Your plan should contain all
    major elements necessary to address the problem
    of the status quo and inherent barriers.
  • Organize into planks
  • Agency who is responsible for oversight and
    implementation of your plan? Existing or new
    U.S. government agencies like the EPA, FCC, etc.
  • Mandates explains what the agency will do.
    Will laws be made or repealed? Specific mandates
    are easier to enforce because they provide clear
    measures of what to do.
  • Time frames
  • Funding Whos going to pay for it?
  • Enforcement How and who will enforce it?

17
  • Talk about the advantages of your solution.
  • Talk about how it solves the problem.
  • Remember You, the Government Team have the
    burden of proof.
  • You need to provide sufficient reasons to
    overcome presumption.
  • Thus, provide a good prima facie case that
    temporarily suspends presumption.
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