How To Debate

John Thibault
4 min readOct 21, 2020

Structurally speaking, a debate has five main parts:

1. Summary

2. Position

3. Arguments

4. Rebuttals

5. Conclusion

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Most debates also have rules about their resources. These serve to act as constraints. They are:

  • Time
  • Votes

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John Thibault

Founder, CEO iLobby & Author How to Change a Law, SWAY and The Political Game. Change policy and see around corners. https://ilobby.mykajabi.com/Free-Tutorial