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Side 1:strength and weaknesses:treason one
Side 2:strength and weaknesses
Conclusion: who won and why
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Due Wednesday
Debate Notes:
Side 1:
-Caesar crossed Rubicon and committed treason
-treason penalty is death
-before crossing he said the die is cast which means the choice he made is permanant
-the law they passed protected them from internal military threat
-diserved to die because treason can be punished by death
-before he crossed he new he would be stripped of commands and be prosecuted
-Caesar new he was doing something wrong but did it anyway
Main:
-caesar was a self glorified dictator
-strictly hungry for more power and land
-he knew what he was doing was wrong
-knwe the gov. set up laws so they couldn't take military force across rubicon into rome
-he denied orders and took a legion with him is 6000 of less military people
-disobeyed orders and deserved to die
-looking to get more power and go around laws
-he found a way to get around the rules and he didn't and payed for it
-supposed to return back to home city and disband but crossed rubicon with military
Points:
-Caesar knew he was doing something wrong
-started in 50 bc with pompey when he orderd caesar to disband and go back to rome
-instead of going back he took his army striaght to the rubicon
-crossing rubicon with force is treason
-when he was crossing he said dye is cast so it means he knew he was doing something wrong but didn't care and was going to do it anyway
-he started civil war and committed treason so he deserved to die
-knowing all along what your doing is wrong is a terrible thing
Rebuttle:
-he invaded rome and killed thousands of their citizens
-he was basically a dictator and no one had a say in him being ruler
-he pushed through a land bill for the poor that was all ready being worked on so he stole the idea and claimed it as his own
-he took his own personal money and gave it to people so people would like him
-he saved money throught corrupt taxes
-he was liked because he gave out his own money
-caesar was waging war most of the time and really wasn't helping people
-he broke an ancient roman law which was treason
-very aggressive person
-was very selfish
-Rubicon was his way of starting a rebellion
-treason is punished with prosecution and death
-betrayed his own country
Side 2:
-Julius caesar deserve to die and the assasins were motivated by greed and desire
-Did not deserve to die
-He helped out people of Rome
-Usually leaders don't care about poor but he did
-most Romans liked him
-friend Brutus turned people against him-brutus was back stabbing liar
-no one ever deserves to die
-people should have just over ruled him instead of killed him
Main:
-proving him innocent
-he deserved to be ruler he helped saved money and cared for poor people and didn't except the crown
-not excepting the crown means he didn't want power that bad
-he reconstitionized the courts and number of senators
-After he was murdered Rome went into chaos
-most of Rome liked Caesar
-Brutus killed Caesar because of Greed
-Caesar took ransom money and put it in the good of Rome
-spend time helping poor
-believed poor are as good as the rich
-after serving in the roman army he got a interest in politics
-he didn't take away the senates wealth
-Caesar was murdered by politicians b/c they think he was obssesed with his own importance and were jealous of Caesar
Rebuttle:
-caesar did not deserve to die
-everyone did one wrong thing
-what he did wasn't that bad
-what he did wasn't that bad because he was going to go to jail anyway
-he wasn't a terrible person
-he refused the crown and helped the poor
-him wanting more land was going to be used for the people of Rome
-he was intellegent and used his intellegence for rome
-didn't have a choice because he was put in that position
-he didn't deserve to die for one wrong thing
main reasons:
-he refused the crown so he didn't have a great desire for power
-gave money to rome...spent his money to better Rome
-he cared for the poor... respected everyone from Rome
-he did only one bad thing wrong
-murdered by politicians
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