“When the United Nations can truly call itself a community of democracies, the Charter\'s noble ideals of protecting human rights and promoting social progress in larger freedoms\' will have been brought much closer. When the founders of the United Nations met in San Francisco more than half a century ago, they knew that no foundation of peace would be sturdier than democratic government.\"
--U.N. Secretary- General Kofi Annan\"
-It is because of this quote that I am here to affirm the resolution.
RESOLVED: THE UNITED STATES HAS A MORAL OBLIGATION TO PROMOTE DEMOCRATIC IDEALS IN OTHER NATIONS.
Definitions:
moral- conforming to standards of what is just behavior
obligation- a requirement or duty that compels one to follow a course of action
promote- to contribute to the progress or growth of
democratic- a form of government that possesses these characteristics: regular elections for the most powerful gov’t positions; competitive political parties; secret balloting;......
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