13NFL1-Compulsory Voting Page 16 of 163 www.victorybriefs.com of or find cards for and just race through writing it. You might feel like you’re on the right track because you are doing prep fast, and a lot of it. But you are not really doing prep if it turns out that what you have written is totally useless. This essay is going to point you toward the right way to start by thinking. It may not feel like you’re getting a lot done at this stage, but you are getting far more done than you would otherwise. If you at any point in the thinking and outlining process start to feel that way, take a break by writing a few more responses to the Harvard Law Review article until you feel better and then start fresh. Introduction This essay approaches the topic from a particular perspective. My aim here is to focus on interpretive issues and approaches to the resolution. Hopefully this will supplement other research or essays you are reading that speak to the more contention-level approaches to the topic. That means I spend a good bit of my time in this essay on the framework level of the debate, but in doing so I hope to also point you towards authors and arguments you could use at the contention level. My idea in doing this approach is that it is somewhat more difficult to learn about framework-level arguments on your own, so this will hopefully jump-start your thinking on this level. Don’t think I’m speaking only to framework-heavy debaters, however. Although some of the positions I direct you towards would be framework heavy, the issues I raise could be a valuable part of a very short framework or even just good tools for your refutation of cases even if they never appear in your cases.
