Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake TC | Judge: Jared Woods
V: Democratic Legitimacy 

St. Maintain avenues for dissent 

1. Dissent is a check of state and majority
   Elizabeth Anderson 6 John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the Universiy of Michigan. “The Epistemology of Democracy” Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, Volume 3, Issue 1-2, 2006, pp. 8-22
   'Diversity and disagreement...in political decision-making'
   Accountability necessary for democracy to be responsive

2. Dissent necessary for dem. deliberation, w/o which we would be unable to reflect on our values
Amartya Sen 99  Thomas W Larmont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University “Democracy as a Universal Value “Journal of Democracy 10.3 (1999) 3-17
'Viewed in this...permitted or not'
Neg is a pre-req because deliberation is necessary to endorse particular values.

3. Dissent respect freedoms
Lawrence B. Solum Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law School. “Book Review The Value of Dissent.” 85 Cornell L. Rev. 859-881 (2000) (reviewing Steven H. Shiffrin, Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America (1999))
'What is the... with the dissenters'
Dissent necessary because democracy is premised on the understanding that citizens are free and equal

Contention

1. Dissent is political expression
   Hill 02 LISA HILL. University of Adelaide. “Compulsory Voting: Residual Problems and Potential Solutions.” Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 437–455. 2002. Carfax Publishing, Taylor and Francis Group
   'First, one of... is political objection'

Not voting is a tool of legitimation of the state
Czesnik 6 (Mikolaj, Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences) “Voter Turnout and Democratic Legitimacy in Central Eastern Europe” Polish Sociological Review, No. 156 (2006), pp. 449-470 Published by: Polish Sociological Association http://www.jstor.org/stable/41274988
'The relation between... of it's de-legitimation.'

2. CV masks which sections of the population are dissatisfied
Rovensky 8 (Jan, MA in Political Science and English and American Studies at Charles University Prague, Graduate of Doctoral Program in Political Theoy at LUISS Guido Carli) “Voting: A Citizen’s Right, or Duty?” Free International University of Social Studies Guido Carli, School of Political Science, Doctorate in Political Theory – PhD Thesis
'Measuring the level... and random votes.'