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And further, let us suppose that this imaginary city of Wytown now has a city government with a mayor of limited powers, a small board of aldermen, and a larger city council. The other necessary facts will appear in the introduction to the brief. Reading for the Argument.
When you come to the working out of your brief you start with your main issues, stated now as assertions. Then for each of them you give one or more reasons. In the brief for introducing commission government into Wytown, let us start with the main issues for the affirmative, transforming them from questions into assertions.
In the main issues for the argument on introducing commission government into Wytown, as they are worked out below, it will be seen that main issue 4 for the affirmative is derived in part from the points marked 1, 2, 6, and 8 of those for the affirmative, and those marked 3, 4, and 5 for the negative.
For example, the proposition, "Commission government would be a good thing for Wytown, but the initiative and referendum are wrong in principle," involves two separate and unconnected principles, since commission government as first embodied at Galveston does not include the initiative and referendum.
On the other hand, "Wytown should adopt a commission government on the Des Moines plan," would not be a double proposition, though this plan includes the initiative and referendum; for the proposition makes the issue that the plan should be adopted or rejected as a whole. In some cases a proposition may be grammatically compound, and yet carry a single assertion.
Enter the audience for whom your argument might be written, and note what you think would be their knowledge of the subject, and their prepossessions toward it. The citizens of Wytown. They are convinced that there should be a change in the city government; but they are not yet familiar with the Des Moines plan.
Whichever side you were arguing on there is no reason that you should lose the advantage of so phrasing the issue that you can go directly to your work of establishing your contention. In the argument on introducing commission government into Wytown the main issues might be as follows: The main issues as chosen by the affirmative: 1.
In the argument on introducing a commission form of government into Wytown this noting down of the chief points which might be urged on the two sides would be about as follows: Contentions on the Two Sides. On the affirmative the following points might be urged: 1. The plan would make the individuals who hold the power directly responsible at all times to the citizens.
Wytown should adopt the commission form of government, in the form now in practice at Des Moines, Iowa. Make three arguable propositions on the subject, "Entrance examinations for college." Criticize the following propositions and amend them, if necessary, so that they might be argued with profit: a. Freshmen should be required to keep reasonable hours. b.
I shall first show how a brief is constructed, by following through part of the process for the argument on the introduction of commission into Wytown; then I shall give the rules, with some explanation of their working and of their practical expediency.
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