Sept/Oct 2013 Topic Analysis One foundationbriefs.com Page 15 of 104 Topic Analysis One “In a democracy, voting ought to be compulsory That’s eight words—a short resolution. Scope it outwith some quick searching, and you’ll likely see two basic camps the voting is a civic duty group, and the not voting is an individual right group—essentially a stock aff and neg set of arguments. As you will see from the rest of this brief, we have tried to both dig into the substance of these two arguments and, more significantly, rigorously pursue other avenues of argumentation. It is, of course, up to you to decide what extra research to do, what ideas to give extra thought, etc. But let’s pick this apart a bit to see if we can open some options aside from the stock approaches.
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