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Motions from British Parliamentary, World Schools and Asian Parliamentary tournaments, every NSDA Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, Policy and Big Questions topic, and classic practice motions. Each one is credited to its source.

Where these motions come from Tournament motions: Debatery reads public Tabbycat (Calicotab) tab sites every six hours, and checks tournaments happening now each time someone opens this page, so motions appear minutes after release. Each one links back to its tournament. Motions not in English are left out for now. NSDA topics: every past Lincoln-Douglas (from 1979), Public Forum (from 2002), Policy (from 1927) and Big Questions resolution, credited to the National Speech & Debate Association with a link to their topic page. Long Policy resolutions are shortened here. Themes and topics are tagged automatically from the words in each motion, so a few will be off.