Resolutions
This page contains a comprehensive list of every debate resolution of the Federalist Party.
Click on each resolution for further details.
2024-2025
Fall 2024
2023-2024
Fall 2023
R: Politics is Friends Versus Enemy
R: Dobbs Was Good for the Pro-Life Cause
R: Whistleblowers are Traitors
R: This House Prefers Athens to Sparta
R: Give Krampus the Naughty List
Spring 2024
R: Change the Twenty Dollar Bill
R: Conservatives Should Be Activists
R: Your Spouse Should Be Your Best Friend
R: Low Culture is High Culture
R: There Are No Red or Blue States, Only the United States
2022-2023
Fall 2022
R: Conservatives Have No Party
R: Democracy Degrades the Soul
R: There Can Be No Saints in the Halls of Power
R: Fight on the Front Lines of the Culture War
Spring 2023
R: Politics is the Art of the Possible
R: Create Parallel Institutions
R: Immigrants Should Assimilate
2019-2020
2018-2019
Fall 2018
R: All Students Must Study the Classics
R: The Government Should Fund the Arts
R: Avoid Death
R: Wake Up From the American Dream
R: Reinstate an Index of Forbidden Books
R: This House Prefers D.C. to New York
Spring 2019
R: History is Meant to be Rewritten
R: Implement Universal Basic Income
R: Drag Them to Heaven in Chains
2016-2017
Fall 2016
R: Conservatives Have No Party
R: Unite Under a Common Language
R: Take the Road More Traveled
R: Public Schools are a Public Menace
R: Cemeteries are for the Living
R: Secession is a State's Right
Spring 2017
R: Embrace Right-Wing Populism
R: Endorse the Benedict Option
2015-2016
Fall 2015
R: It Is Evil to Negotiate with Evil
R: Your Friends Should Share Your Values
R: Weed-Whack the Garden of Liberty
Spring 2016
R: Divorce Marriage From the State
R: This House Prefers Science to Science Fiction
Should the State Protect Privacy?
R: America is Good because Her Constitution is Great
2014-2015
2013-2014
Fall 2013
R: You Should Have Nothing to Hide
R: Unchain Representatives from Their Constituency
R: America Is Good Because Her Constitution Is Great
R: This House Prefers Potential to Accomplishment
R: It Is Strange to Be Anything At All
R: Capitalism Is Good for the Soul
R: Fiction Is Useless Stillness
Spring 2014
R: Add Theology to the Common Core
R: Bros Before Fine, Upstanding Young Women
R: If You Want My Organs, You'll Have to Pry Them from My Warm, Dead Body
2012-2013
Fall 2012
R: Natural Rights Are a Social Construct
R: All Happy Families Are Alike; Each Unhappy Family is Unhappy in Its Own Way
R: The Roman Catholic Church Is Justified in Forbidding the Use of Contraception
R: Follow the Law Rather than Conscience
R: The Holy Roman Empire Strikes Back
R: We Are Not the Masters of Our Machines
Spring 2013
R: Your Friends Should Share Your Values
R: Civilization Is on the Rise
R: Never Trust a Consequentialist
2011-2012
Fall 2011
R: Two Passports Are for Traitors
R: This House Prefers Tolkien to Lewis
R: Directed Studies Is No Grand Strategy
R: Corporations Are People, Too
R: Art Is Faster than the Speed of Science
Spring 2012
R: Dr. Santorum, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mitt Romney
R: There Is No Great American Novel
R: Prison Is No Place for Criminals
R: Federalism Is a Failed Experiment
R: This House Prefers the vita activa to the vita contemplativa
R: Christianity and Capitalism Are Enemies
R: Language Is Another Word for Culture
R: The Bill of Rights Is Wrong
2010-2011
Fall 2010
R: Gov. Brewer, Tear down This Law!
R: Capitalism Crippled Main Street
R: The Future Is Made in China
R: Pro Wrestling Prepares for the Senate
R: Private Property Is a Noble Lie
R: This House Prefers the Heartland to New England
Spring 2011
R: Football Is the Great American Sport
R: This House Prefers Washington to New York
R: This House Prefers Unions to Fat Cats
R: Let the Nuclear Family Melt Down