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The American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States.APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April.
The National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) is the largest interscholastic speech and debate organization serving middle school and high school students in the United States. [1] It was known as the National Forensic League from 1925 to 2014. [ 2 ]
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Competitive debating stayed a primarily intercollegiate activity until Bruno E. Jacob founded the National Forensic League (NFL)—since renamed as the National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA)—in 1925. A professor at Ripon College, Jacob was inspired by a letter he received asking if a debate league for high school students existed.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
The North American Debating Championship is one of the two official university debate championships of North America. It is sanctioned by the national university debating associations in the United States and Canada , the American Parliamentary Debate Association and the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate .
One month after the founding of the Debating Society, the Philanthropic Society (originally known as the Concord Society) split off due to strict rules and political disagreements. It took a new motto, " Virtus, Libertas, et Scientia ", with the addition of the word Libertas lending some insight into the reasons for splitting.