PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE CASE TEMPLATE [Hook]
The United States is one of the 4 countries to have a minimum legal drinking age of 21, the other three being Mongolia, Indonesia, and Peru.
We [Affirm/Negate] the resolution
Lower the Minimum Legal Drinking Age to 18 years of age
We would like to present the following definitions:
Drinking is defined to mean drinking alcohol
MLDA is defined to mean The legal age in the U.S. that people are allowed to drink alcohol
The 3 main contentions we believe affirm/negate this resolution are:
The age of adulthood in the U.S. is 18,why should they wait until 21 to drink?
The Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act of 1984 might be unconstitutional
Making underage drinking illegal has pushed it underground, where it is harder to track Contention 1. The age of adulthood in the U.S. is 18,why should they wait until 21 to drink? …show more content…
are considered adults. They can drive, join the military, vote, get married, smoke cigarettes, serve on a jury, sign contracts, and are even prosecuted as an adult. Yet they still cannot drink alcohol.
Contention 2. The Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act of 1984 might be unconstitutional
The evidence to support this is
The act stated that establishing a minimum drinking age should rest with the states. But if the states set their own MLDA, the federal government threatened to withhold highway funds. This got most of the states to raise their drinking age to 21, which Joseph Brown, a writer from the Tampa Tribune says the 1984 act,”was, in effect, a federal mandate forced on the states with little or no input from them,”(Brown)
Contention 3. Making underage drinking illegal has pushed it underground, where it is harder to track.
The evidence to support this
The United States is one of the 4 countries to have a minimum legal drinking age of 21, the other three being Mongolia, Indonesia, and Peru.
We [Affirm/Negate] the resolution
Lower the Minimum Legal Drinking Age to 18 years of age
We would like to present the following definitions:
Drinking is defined to mean drinking alcohol
MLDA is defined to mean The legal age in the U.S. that people are allowed to drink alcohol
The 3 main contentions we believe affirm/negate this resolution are:
The age of adulthood in the U.S. is 18,why should they wait until 21 to drink?
The Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act of 1984 might be unconstitutional
Making underage drinking illegal has pushed it underground, where it is harder to track Contention 1. The age of adulthood in the U.S. is 18,why should they wait until 21 to drink? …show more content…
are considered adults. They can drive, join the military, vote, get married, smoke cigarettes, serve on a jury, sign contracts, and are even prosecuted as an adult. Yet they still cannot drink alcohol.
Contention 2. The Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act of 1984 might be unconstitutional
The evidence to support this is
The act stated that establishing a minimum drinking age should rest with the states. But if the states set their own MLDA, the federal government threatened to withhold highway funds. This got most of the states to raise their drinking age to 21, which Joseph Brown, a writer from the Tampa Tribune says the 1984 act,”was, in effect, a federal mandate forced on the states with little or no input from them,”(Brown)
Contention 3. Making underage drinking illegal has pushed it underground, where it is harder to track.
The evidence to support this