The ToO Convention!

No not a meeting with your fellow ToOers, but a fun contest!

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The ToO Convention!

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Welcome to the Online Constitutional Convention!
What we will be doing in this contest is picking a partner to work with and creating a speech and having a debate over chat. This is a way to be "a part" or learn more about the amending process of a constitution. The way it will work is you will find another user to work with you, so people will sign up for this, then after enough people sign up, partners can be picked. Each pair will either 1. Either Choose one of the 32 topics or
2. Come up with your own and ask me if the topic is okay, and research it and write a short speech about their topic and a resolution. We will have a debate over chat on a date I will set soon, hopefully a Friday night and will be central time.
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Abortion - though we know where most everyone stands on this
School uniforms
Genetic testing for disease
Book banning in schools
Cloning
Public Transportation
Abuse
mental Health
Teen Suicide
Pesticide use and watersheds
Animal testing
internet censorship
Patriot act
Air Quality and Pollution
Teen Pregnancy
Facebook
Cyber Bullying
Welfare to work
Year round Schools
Universal health care
Smoking laws
Gambling
Universal Declaration of human rights
Local Hunger problems
National Rifle Association(NRA)
Nuclear testing in foreign countries
Schools by gender
Daycare at workplaces
DNA Use in Courtroom
Vandalism
Racism in schools
homosexuality
write a speech, and a resolution, the resolution is like your amendment, example
We support later start times for secondary schools so students may receive more sleep and be better prepared for school.
There is a small entry fee of $2 to help with prize money, the people with the most votes on their resolution wins $100 in total the other amounts will be determined later.
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So do we sign up in this thread?
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Yep, this is where you sign up.
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I really want to sign-up for this. But I'm not sure if I'll be able to make the chat. So have fun you guys!
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Knight Fisher wrote:I really want to sign-up for this. But I'm not sure if I'll be able to make the chat. So have fun you guys!
Depending on how many people sign up for this will depend on how many days we would be on chat, if it seems that chat would be a problem, we could most certainly have it in a thread.
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Graces4you wrote:
Knight Fisher wrote:I really want to sign-up for this. But I'm not sure if I'll be able to make the chat. So have fun you guys!
Depending on how many people sign up for this will depend on how many days we would be on chat, if it seems that chat would be a problem, we could most certainly have it in a thread.
My schedule is just unpredictable. I have lots of time. But I don't know when I'll have it. And I wouldn't want to let a partner down. If it was thread style I could do it. But if it would work better with everyone else to do it chat style, by all means do it that way. Also, who will be arguing the opposite side of the issue?
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Knight Fisher wrote:
Graces4you wrote:
Knight Fisher wrote:I really want to sign-up for this. But I'm not sure if I'll be able to make the chat. So have fun you guys!
Depending on how many people sign up for this will depend on how many days we would be on chat, if it seems that chat would be a problem, we could most certainly have it in a thread.
My schedule is just unpredictable. I have lots of time. But I don't know when I'll have it. And I wouldn't want to let a partner down. If it was thread style I could do it. But if it would work better with everyone else to do it chat style, by all means do it that way. Also, who will be arguing the opposite side of the issue?
If you can work it out with your partner to have he/she to have the work you do and such, he/she could present it, as long as he/she knows you can't make it. The way the debate works is the other participants ask questions and you try to answer them as best you can, often times some of questions lead to long debates over topics and such. Does that answer your question?
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Yes it does. :yes:
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I would like to participate and will be pming you the suggested entry fee as soon as this post has been posted.
It's been awhile, hasn't it?
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Thank you very much Monty for your help!

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I'm not saying that I'll do it, but could we do something on homosexuality? Or is that not appropriate?
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Yes, I forgot to include that in the topic list, thank you.
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Personally, the thread option would probably work better for me, but I could probably make chat work if I had to.
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As 25% of those who are currently participating, thread or chat works for me. I'm only able to get on between 7-10 CST if we're doing chat, though.
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I will join and thread might works better for me and when is the end date?
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The end date will be most likely be during the week of December 18, I'm not sure, but it might possibly later, like in January depending if people can come online. I'm thinking about whether it should be chat or thread style, seeing that most of the sign ups would prefer thread style.
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Have you decided anything yet Gracy?
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If you do a chat, I may be able to be there as chat staff to make sure stuff doesn't go wrong. Also, some of those topics we try to keep out of the main room, so I could set up a separate room for this if you do the chat.
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