2005 High School Debate Topic

This year's topic is Civil Liberties with emphasis on search and detention.

Resolved: That the United States federal government should substantially decrease its authority either to detain without charge or to search without probable cause.

Timely, or cliche'? You be the judge.

One thing for sure is that there is A LOT to be found on this topic in government information collections - especially through GPO Access.

The web page from the University of Michigan Documents Center gives a lot of good links and places to start looking for information, but those eyeballs that follow the cursor around make me want to kill myself and others.