They could recommend indictments for illegal behavior or could disclose the relevant information to the public without the embarrassing and irrelevant details. Also argue that public disclosure deters potentially good candidates from running for office because they are not willing to go through the pain of media mudslinging. Modern arguments by the Supreme Court for greater state power might provide some good ground for the affirmative to research, but do not forget the Federalist papers and the responses to them. Decentralized power might appear best because its institutions are closer to the voters, reducing the risk of tyranny and making democratic institutions more accountable to the people they represent. Decentralized power cuts bureaucracy making some government more efficient, or eliminating the need for it altogether.
Decentralized government is less likely to prescribe moralistic or normative values.
Negatives have got better ground on this resolution. Civil rights, environmental protections, women s rights, foreign policy cohesion, and education policy might all be good examples of the goods of centralized governments. Civil rights and women s suffrage are especially appealing examples because they are illustrations of how centralized government was necessary to create a truly democratic society. Decentralized government failed democracy in those cases. Both sides need to think about the purposes of punishment.