Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA
The United States Federal Government ought to create a posthumous exception to the attorney client privilege for truth seeking to take precedence over attorney client privilege in the Criminal Justice system.

Tournament: Meadows | Round: 4 | Opponent: Kinkaid MS | Judge: Ryan Fink
My advocacy text is that: The United States ought to eliminate the corporate attorney client privilege to take precedence for truth seeking in the Criminal Justice system.

Tournament: Berk | Round: 1 | Opponent: Berk | Judge: Berk
Developing countries should end gold mining operations to prioritize environmental protection over resource extraction

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Dowling Catholic DK | Judge: Larry Liu
Oxford English defines “ought” and “compulsory”

I value morality.

The standard is consistency with communitarian principles as defined by Gilman:
Michele Estrin Gilman “Poverty and Communitarianism: Towards a Community-Based Welfare System” University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 4, 2005. MR
“As noted earlier…apart from them”

Haste elaborates:
Helen Haste “Communitarianism and the Social Construction of Morality” 1998 http://tigger.uic.edu/~lnucci/MoralEd/articles/haste.html
“For communitarians the…must be effective”

Prefer this standard for several reasons. 

1) Society is an inherent part of individual identity. Gilman 2:
Ibid.
“Because individuals are…specific, substantive values”

2) Community-based obligations are key to prevent government oppression by letting citizens control society. Gilman 3:
Ibid.
“Second, communitarians assert…of the common good”

3) The fulfillment of duties to society is a necessary component of autonomy.

4) Working to uphold society is a prerequisite to all moral action. Bell:
Bell, Daniel, "Communitarianism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2012/entries/communitarianism/. MR
“The qualified version…actual moral experience”

My sole burden is to demonstrate that voting is a necessary civic duty under the framework. Therefore I contend that compulsory voting is a necessary obligation under the communitarian philosophy.
A. Preserving the community: Failure to vote is ignorance to civic duties. Voting is key to maintain the political value of the community. Faulconer:
Angela Wentz Faulconer, B.A., M.A., “CIVIC EXCELLENCE: CITIZEN VIRTUE AND CONTEMPORARY LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITY” Graduate Program in Philosophy Notre Dame, Indiana. EL
“I will first…ideal of stability”

B. Free-riding: Abstention is a form of free riding, promoting the idea that the self is more important than the community. Engelen:
Bart Engelen Research Assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (Belgium) Centre for Economics and Ethics – Institute of Philosophy “The Disease of Democracy and the Remedial Role of Compulsory Voting” JL
“Abstainers are actually…and its values”

C. Altruism: Voting is directly associated with altruistic behavior. Knack provides the results of the study:
Knack, Stephen (1998): For shame! The effect of community cooperative context on the probability of voting. Published in: Political Psychology , Vol. 19, No. 3 (September 1998): pp. 585-600. MR
“Both of these…of civic obligation”

Indeed, decreased voter turnouts are caused by weakening social unity. Knack 2:
Stephen Knack “Social Altruism and Voter Turnout: Evidence from the 1991 NES Pilot Study” January 1992. MR
“From this perspective, … civic mindedness in America”

D. Freedom: The social obligation to vote outweighs individual claims to freedom. Dagger:
Richard Dagger Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism. Oxford University Press, 1997. MR
“In all of…coercion is warranted”

Indeed, voting is necessary to protect the rights and freedoms of others in society. Dagger 2:
Ibid.
“For that matter…forced to be free”