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This House allow voting at 16 in European Parliament elections

7 May 2013

The European Parliament is a directly elected body that covers all European Union members. It has 754 members who are elected once every five years. Unusually...

This House would lower the voting age to 16

30 Apr 2013

The right to vote is one of the most important human rights. It gives men and women the chance to have a say in the way they are governed. It allows them to...

This House would post the full financial history of all candidates for political office online

27 Feb 2013

Politicians come under intense scrutiny when they seek public office. When they put their names forward they open themselves up to public questioning about...

This House believes the expenditure of money should be protected as speech.

4 Jan 2013

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission[1] held that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects...

This House believes elections do not bring change

5 Nov 2012

Change is, obviously, a relative term. One person’s minor alteration is another’s revolutionary shift. However, generally in most representative...

Is it worth voting? (First past the post systems)

28 Oct 2012

This debate is specific to first past the post systems (FPTP) such and the United Kingdom and the United States. Some of the arguments will work for other more...

This House believes that film stars, music stars and other popular entertainers should not be participating in party-political campaigns

20 Sep 2012

Throughout the world, celebrities from the entertainment world have been getting involved with political campaigns. Some, like Reagan and Schwarzenegger in the...

This House believes that Greek far-right political party “Golden Dawn” should be expelled from parliament and banned from participating in future elections.

19 Sep 2012

Golden Dawn is a right-wing extremist political party that has rapidly gained prominence in the midst of the economic depression Greece finds itself in. Having...

This House would directly elect city mayors

30 Apr 2012

In many towns and cities throughout the world, mayors are directly elected by the citizens, with varying but often considerable power to govern locally on...

This House would abolish the US Electoral College

21 Feb 2012

The United States has perhaps the most arcane method of selecting its chief executive of any nation, one no country has chosen to emulate. There...

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