The Government should do more to promote Jewish businesses.

Also I would like to apologize for not investigating your profile and seeing you were from the United Kingdom, so I will recant my third contention as it obviously does not apply in the U. K, but will not rescind my first and second contentions, as they apply to any country. I would also request that this confusion not be taken into account when voting, as the specific government was not specified in the resolution. Rebuttal 1: This resolution has absolutely nothing to do with kosher food items, and is entirely about whether or not the government should promote Jewish businesses, as stated by my opponent, by marking their stores. It does not matter whether or not the general population would react in the same way as 30's and 40's Germans, but the fact that Jewish businesses would be marked would obviously open the door for discrimination that otherwise would not have been present, as now everyone knows that a Jew owns a particular business. Also the idea of the Holocaust is a tragic subject for the Jewish people and to mark their businesses in EXACTLY the same way as the Germans who wrote "Jew" and painted a Star of David would be perceived as hateful and mocking. Rebuttal 2: My second contention DOES relate to the United Kingdom's government encroaching on private property and forcing these markings upon business owners. I would like to elaborate on why these markings would be forced upon Jewish store owners. If the Jews running businesses were too "modest" to mark their store them self, then by what my opponent said, the government will either ask people if they would like to have their store marked, or force it. It would be irrelevant to propose this resolution if the markings were optional, as then it would still be up to the business owner who would still be too "modest" to mark their business. Therefore this resolution seeks to mark businesses whose owners object to the markings, thus infringing upon their property rights. There is no reason this does not apply to the United Kingdom. Rebuttal 3: As I addressed in the introduction to this round of argument, this obviously does not apply in the United Kingdom, but my third contention did not provide reasons why the resolution should not be passed, but only why it could not be passed. The meat of my argument still stands. Anecdotally, there is no ability to use Fiat Power in the United States to overrule the Constitution as my opponent suggested. Any amendment must be ratified by the people, not through a federal Congress. Voting Issues: My opponent's only argument for the government promoting Jewish businesses is that they deserve/should receive more patronage through marking of stores with a Star of David and "Jew". I have shown that this is exactly what the Nazis have done, and would be applying lemon juice to the wounds of the Jewish people, and how this resolution would violate a business owner's personal property rights by forcing them to identify their religious beliefs on the exterior of their store. Therefore because this resolution would be a constant reminder of the Holocaust for the Jews, and because it violates individual and property rights, this resolution must be negated. Voting Suggestions: Before the Debate: Whatever you thought prior to reading. After the Debate: Whoever you thought did the better debating.