Each year the National Federation of High Schools releases the Policy Debate topic for the schools to debate.  Since Fayette County Debate’s birth we’ve seen topics that can be separated into two issues, foreign & domestic:

Foreign Topics: Public Health Assistance in Africa, UN Peacekeeping Operations, Ocean Policy, Russia, China, and Latin America

Domestic Topics: Poverty, Alternative Energy (2x), National Service, Civil Liberties/Privacy (2x), Mental Health Care, WMD, Secondary Education, Crime/Prisons (2x), Space Exploration, Retirement Security, Agriculture, Homelessness, Trade, Health Insurance, Trade, and Immigration

If you click on the season dates, you would get a glance at the types of argumentation the Fayette debate teams made:

• 2009-2010: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States.
• 2008-2009: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the United States.
• 2007-2008: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its public health assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa.
• 2006-2007: Resolved: The United States federal government should establish a policy substantially increasing the number of persons serving in one or more of the following national service programs: AmeriCorps, Citizen Corps, Senior Corps, Peace Corps, Learn and Serve America, Armed Forces.
• 2005-2006: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially decrease its authority either to detain without charge or to search without probable cause.
• 2004-2005: Resolved: That the United States federal government should establish a foreign policy substantially increasing its support of United Nations peacekeeping operations.
• 2003-2004: Resolved: That the United States federal government should establish an ocean policy substantially increasing protection of marine natural resources.
• 2002-2003: Resolved: That the United States federal government should substantially increase public health services for mental health care in the United States.
• 2001-2002: Resolved: That the United States federal government should establish a foreign policy significantly limiting the use of weapons of mass destruction.
• 2000-2001: Resolved: That the United States federal government should significantly increase protection of privacy in the United States in one or more of the following areas: employment, medical records, consumer information, search and seizure.
• 1999-2000: Resolved: That the federal government should establish an education policy to significantly increase academic achievement in secondary schools in the United States.
• 1998-1999: Resolved: That the United States should substantially change its foreign policy toward Russia.
• 1997-1998: Resolved: That the federal government should establish a policy to substantially increase renewable energy use in the United States.
• 1996-1997: Resolved: That the federal government should establish a program to substantially reduce juvenile crime in the United States.
• 1995-1996: Resolved: That the United States government should substantially change its foreign policy toward to people’s Republic of China.
• 1994-1995: Resolved: That the United States government should substantially strengthen regulation of immigration to the United States.
• 1993-1994: Resolved: That the federal government should guarantee comprehensive national health insurance to all United States Citizens
• 1992-1993: Resolved: That the United States government should reduce worldwide pollution through its trade and/or aid policies.
• 1991-1992: Resolved: That the federal government should significantly increase social services to homeless individuals in the United States.
• 1990-1991: Resolved: That the United States government should significantly increase space exploration beyond the earth’s mesosphere.
• 1989-1990: Resolved: That the federal government should adopt a nationwide policy to decease overcrowding in prisons and jails in the United States.
• 1988-1989: Resolved: That the federal government should implement a comprehensive program to guarantee retirement security for United States citizens over age 65.
• 1987-1988: Resolved: That the United States should adopt a policy to increase political stability In Latin America.
• 1986-1987: Resolved: That the federal government should implement a comprehensive, long term agricultural policy in the United States.