module 1 Academic British parliamentary Debate
Parliament(议会)权力和立法机关 监督政府
The Hou of common(下议院)650名议员组成,每名有当地人选出代表国家的每个地区。
The hou of lord (上议院)
The government and opposition
政府负责安排两院的事务,执行两院的政策。
反对党批评政府,希望对政策的制定以及立法工作提出建设性意见,以便下次选举时,获得有利的选票
Motion(议案)
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1.motions of value focus on abstract moral and philosophical principaltheothers
shopzoomFor example:自由比平等更有价值
仁慈的专制是最好的政府模式张九龄 望月怀远
用一条无辜的性命去拯救10人是道德的。
2.Motions of policy are plans of action to solve an extra problem。
For example:本院主张废除禁止虐待动物的法律
本院主张禁止发布错误言论的演讲
本院相信欧盟应该为奖励父母生孩子
本院将会禁止平民使用核能
我们的辩论主要是policy motions
A clod motion(封闭)
在议会制辩论中,PM(prime minister首相)被赋予(t the ground for the debate)划定辩论范围的权力,通过定义和解释motion,换句话就是说,PM可以缩小或者扩大辩论的
范围。一个clod motion 解释和定义的范围是固定的。但是mi motion(半封闭)和open motion 却相对可以自由的定义。我们不用定义所有的term(概念),当这些概念被观众所知道的。但这个motion的term大家都清楚的明白时,我们就describe statue quo(现象和背景)或者说存在的问题。如本院将废除国际妇女节。这个motion我们就不要interpret(解释),just describe the statue quo as follow:
International Women’s Day is aimed at providing the opportunity to celebrate the progress made to advance equality,justice,peace and development. It is evidence that women in the urban area in china have achieved equal rights and enjoy their lives as men do.this indeed is worth celebrating.but what about the majority of women in rural area? They are still suffering from poverty. While their might be worried about food for their children,not to stay for themlves. We have to remember that more than 30 million people in china is under the poverty line, of which more than half are women. Ladies and gentlemen, having this in your mind, do you still want to celebrate international womencomputernetwork’s day? We are plead to have this opportunity to address this problem that is faced by thousands of women.
kwanzaa 相同的像:本院将废除独生子女制度。大家都明白就不用interpret。
An Semi-clod motion
半封闭的motions 有相对更大范围用来定义,所以我们需要定义重要的概念(key term)或者缩小和界定重要概念的范围,使辩论的方向朝有利于government 的方向来定义。
例如 the hou would intervene in Syria 其中的intervention(干涉)到底干涉什么方面呢?我们可以理解为经济,军事,外交等等,这时就可以界定一个具体的范围来辩论,这也是prime minister 的重要策略。for example
Firstly, we might focus on diplomatic intervention and interpret the motion as follows
We are here to debate the motion, this hou would intervene in syria, it is evident that this resolution is referring to the ongoing controversy in syria. That is the basis for today’s debate. Our model is simple:requesting countries like russia to issue pressures on the assad administration (指叙利亚的阿萨德政府)to negotiate wit
h protesters.
Secondly,we might interpret the motion with regard to economic sanctionsplastic
Ladies and gentlemen,thousands of civilians in syria are being killed or arrested simply becau they have different opinion against Assad administration. We cannot act as onlookers any more. We are here to call for economic sanctions on the Assad administration to force them to stop the cruel treatment to the people’prestiges proper appeals
php培训学校 Thirdly,we might interpret the motion in terms of military intervention as what William Bernard Jones, the champion of WUDC,has done on the motion. He describe the problems in syria
In 1982, at the climax of six-year islamic insurgency throughout syria, president hafez al-Assad ordered a scorched earth policy against the town of hama to quell an uprising. In 1982, the world did nothing and tho with power that stood by are
complicit in the deaths of tho people. Thirty years later, the people of syria once again need our help.and if we stand by and do nothing, their blood will be on our hands.
So what is my proposal? For the purpos of this debate, this hou is turkey . I will say more about this later, but for the moment ,we think that realistically, turkey is the only state with the ability and political will to do this. We would like to work through the structures of NATO, which Turkey as a member is legally entitled to do,and we want to ask the UN curity council for their stamp of approval. We think we will get it, becau our cau is just, but if we don’t ,we’balangre going in anyway, becau the lives of syrians are more important than the blessing of the UN. We’re not going to run away from this debate, so by intervene we mean a full scale invasion.