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Introduction to Policy Debate

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Counterplans dominate modern policy debate practice. They are important strategic weapons for the negative, and being able to defeat many different types of counterplans is essential if you want to be a good debater. 

Learning about counterplans is also important because counterplan theory has informed the development of modern day critique theory.  The subject of critique is what will be explored in the next chapter.

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