Arguments: 1. He may seek to shower benefices on family and allies in order to maintain and strengthen his powerful position .
2. When a politician is firmly entrenched , he may seek to enrich himself at the expense of the public .
3. For this reason , power should not be left in the hands of specific individuals for too long .
4. Power is highly intoxicating ; it can corrupt even the most scrupled individual given enough exposure over time .
5. Instead , by maintaining term limits , legislators have only a limited time in power , which tends to shift their focus toward genuinely benefiting the public .
6. Term limits serve to limit the ability of individuals to put forward self-serving legislation and to retain power indefinitely .
7. Because legislators are so likely to be reelected , lobbyists and special interest groups find the lines of power in states ' capitals largely predictable , and are thus able to buy the influence of the permanent power nexuses in the legislature with relative ease .
8. Without term limits legislators often become self-serving individuals , more interested in craving out personal power bases than with serving the people who elected them .

Debate: This house Would enforce term limits on the legislative branch of government


Arguments: 1. First , collisions are part of the tradition of baseball .
2. They have been part of the game for a very long time .
3. Fans , players , and managers all expect home plate hits to occur from time to time .
4. Some things are part of the game .
5. Theres not a whole lot you can do , said Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek , who has been on the receiving end of numerous crashes in his career .
6. Variteks manager at the time , Terry Francona , agreed : Nobody wants to see anybody get hurt , but you got to play the game .
7. And former catcher Brad Ausmus , who had also been hit multiple times in his career , echoed the sentiment : -LSB- I -RSB- t 's part of the game .
8. When you put on the shin guards and chest protector , you know that if theres a play at the plate and youre blocking the plate , you could take a hit at any moment .
9. As the Associated Press put it , many people believe home plate collisions are as much a part of baseball tradition as peanuts and Cracker Jacks and the seventh-inning stretch .
10. Second , home plate hits are an essential element of playing the game hard .

Debate: This House believes major league baseball should continue to allow collisions at home plate.


Arguments: 1. The idea of a free press in a crucial lynch pin behind the concept of democracy because how can one make a truly informed decision if their information sources a forcibly limited ; on the subject of press freedom Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Physician James Currie states that : `` Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press , and that can not be limited without being lost . ''
2. It is therefore important that the ability of the press to be truly free is not sacrificed as democracy and liberty would go with it .
3. The freedom of the press is protected in law throughout the world including United States where it is protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution .
4. It is subject to defamation law but the balance is fine , moving to a more regulated system would be an attack on the ideal of a free press and all that it has achieved .

Debate:
This house believes that the press should be able to publish allegations about private lives without consent