the united states should join the ICC

The resolution is fine, it was just clarity. CX: 1: Yes. Neither does the supreme court. 2: It's already prosecuting criminals, and the U.S. submitting would provide it adequate ways to prosecute. 3 / 4: The U.S. code outlines obligation to foreign human rights. 5: No. 6: That's my entire case; it better protects the rights of US citizens (as outlined in C3), protects global rights, prosecutes terrorism and gives us greater political power globally. Skip affirmative CX. NC: (for space i'm just going to abbreviate and refute, not rehash what you said or quote you.) =V: Sovereignty= You drop sovereignty and accept Governmental Legitimacy because: 1) No brightline on how to uphold sovereignty. There aren't sovereignty points, or whatever, so we have no real way to measure your value in this debate. Obviously we don't value something we can't measure. 2) He doesn't give you a criterion, so he gives you no way to achieve his Value. You drop his value at face and accept the affirmative's value of Legitimacy. 3) The affirmative better upholds sovereignty anyways, because the affirmative strengthens U.S. hegemony (contention one), he defines it as the right to uphold it self, so the affirmative also protects the U.S. government's existence (contention two) and protects the citizens (contention three) which protects from revolt. C1: Drop C1, because: 1) "Could, would, maybe, might" - he gives you a nightmare scenario without telling you why this is going to happen, until the negative provides you evidence that the ICC is going to become some rogue court prosecuting everyone "irrationally and unjustly" at whim you can't accept this as an issue in the round. 2) he makes a good point, "Unfortunately, merely refusing to join the Rome Treaty will not protect Americans from the ICC's reach" which is what I outline in contention one. The problem is the problems of the ICC will exist whether the U.S. submits or not, the only way to ensure protection of U.S. citizens, and thus the legitimacy of the State is through submission insofar as we reap the benefits David Scheffer outlines in C1. Scheffer explains, "[Through joining the ICC] we would have enormous influence in the nomination of judges, the prosecutor's staff, and the prosecutor himself or herself. We would wield enormous influence over how the court operates because it would look to us for assistance. Primarily, such requests involve resources and the apprehension of fugitives, both of which allow the U.S. government to have an enormous impact on the process" without affirming we lack these benefits while still reaping the same harms, at that point he agrees that the harms of the ICC exist regardless of if we affirm or negate, and thus you automatically affirm insofar as the affirmative gives you unique benefits and the negative gives you nonunique harms. C2: 1) he says it violates the constitution; how? He doesn't give you any specific instance, other than it would prosecute U.S. citizens, which as I outline in contention three is actually a GOOD thing. It protects against rights abuses in the U.S. 2) Moreover, the ICC has a list of due process rights granted to each individual prosecuted that David Scheffer calls, "a list longer and more extensive than our own Bill of Rights." 3) The Supreme court isn't the Constitution. 4) Supreme court rulings only apply to U.S. citizens, and the only way u.s. citizens would be prosecuted is if hte U.S. government failed to do it itself, so you cross-apply the reasoning in contention three which argues that it doesn't matter if they lose the right to trial by jury or whatever in the ICC, because the fact that we prosecute that one individual outweighs the slight harms of that prosecution. C3: 1) What does this have to do with anything at all? He defines national sovereignty as: "national sovereignty or the right of the government to uphold itself" This has nothing to do with potential impacts on the ability of the government to uphold itself. AC: Extend everything, the affirmative wins at face. Affirm.