Resolved: in a democratic society felons ought to retain the right to vote

Resolved: In a democratic society convicted felons ought to retain the right to vote. I negate I will first build my own case and then move to my opponents my Core value for this debate will be that of Justice. My Value Criterion will be the social contract. The Social contact is a mutual agreement between the Government and the governed instituted to protect the rights of individuals in society. In exchange for the protection of Natural right the governed must accept restrictions of certain rights and must assume certain duties. 1st --Violation of Contract Locke believed that the violation of the social contract negated the contract between the parties and entered them in a sort of state of war in which no rights were preserved. One of the things required of the governed in to uphold the laws and regulations put in place by society, So in this resolution the felons violated the social contract by not upholding the laws of Society so they are essentially allowing for the violation of their own rights and removal from society because, humans, being rational beings, made a conscious choice to not uphold the duties given to them by the government acknowledge that the government is not obligated to protect those rights. So By violating the Contact felons have essentially removed themselves from society and therefore must be considered as non-citizens to that society. Non-Citizens do not have the right to vote in a foreign country and that is how Felons ought to be treated. They are equal to non-citizens in that regard because just as the felons removed themselves from society non-citizens have not entered into the social contract. 2nd Contention--Double standard If Felons are being allowed to vote we are creating a double standard by which the law breakers are also law makers. This also gives more rights to convicted felons because we are essentially telling them you can break the laws and still get all of the same rights. By this we would be condoning felony which would destroy society. This does not uphold the Affirmative core value of equality because we would be granting more rights to those who had disobeyed the social contract. This does not uphold either core value therefore felons should not vote. Because Humans are rational beings they are knowingly disobeying society and are essentially saying they are above society. Now I will address the affirmative case. Core Value: My Core Value of Justice is superior to the Core value of equality. The reason for this is the goal of every democratic society is to create justice and democracies believe they are the most just form of government making justice the superior Core Value. Criterion: First of all I would like to point out that voting does not make a democracy therefore the right to vote is an invalid Criterion. Also the democratic society is based upon the social contract making it the most superior Value Criterion. 1st contention: The democratic philosophy applies to republics as well. for example a representative democracy is a form of democracy making republics applicable in this debate. 2nd contention. It is not punishment because of qualities because it would not punish a quality. the Social contract is a mutual agreement the felons broke their part. it doesn't matter who or what qualities they posses it is simply that they show a blatant disregard for society 3rd contention So then according to my opponent he would allow children to vote... This would obviously destroy democracy.... Again a republic is a democracy and this idealistic society argued by my opponent cannot exist because it is impractical and impossible due to human faults. Not everyone will vote even if they can making this contention irrelevant. Also only around 5% of felons are even registered to vote...