Burden of Rejoinder

  • Date 2022-07-18

General Definition: In general, the negative responsibility to clash with the affirmative case. More specifically, any time a team establishes a proposition of fact — a claim that something is or isn’t true — the other team has a burden of rejoinder to clash with that claim.

  • Public Forum: see general definition.
  • World Schools Debate: see general definition.
  • British Parliamentary: see general definition.
  • Canadian National Debate Format: see general definition.