1st Affirmative (necessity)

 Necessity is not a justification for the act of murder.

 The importance of this motion is to strengthen the law by setting up a

precedent. (UPHOLDING THE LAW)

 The act is murder as defined by Section 12-A of the Consolidated

Statutes of Newgarth which provides that “Whoever shall willfully take
the life of another shall be punished by death” Their act was done not
only willfully but deliberately.
 “Willful” is the refusal to stop doing something. The act was done
willfully because they acted out of self-interest which was to increase
the odds of their individual survival by forcibly including Whetmore;
“Deliberate” means to think about or discuss something very carefuly
in order to make a decision. Their act was deliberate because it was
pondered on and discussed for a prolonged period of time before
coming to the conclusion of cannibalism. They even discussed the
mathematical problems involved and the method to determine how to
choose who among them should be sacrificed.
 Based on its historical background, the commonwealth of Newgarth
has established a clear-cut principle which is the supremacy of the
legislative branch of the government. From that principle flows the
obligation of the judiciary to enforce faithfully the written law, and to
interpret that law in accordance with its plain meaning without
reference to our personal desires or our individual conceptions of
justice. This principle has become a tacit premise underlying the whole
of the legal and governmental order the judiciary has sworn to
administer. Sovereignty resides with the people through our elected
representatives and within constitutional constraints.  In other words,
ours is a representative democracy, in which we vote for
representatives who enact laws on our behalf. The validity of those

The written law not only requires but demands their conviction. There is
always a right answer and only one right answer in every case and that is
that these four men willfully and deliberately committed the act of murder.
 laws, and the process by which they are enacted, are subject to
a written constitution.
 Thus if the language of the statute is plain and free from ambiguity,
and express a single, definite, and sensible meaning, that meaning is
conclusively presumed to be the meaning which the legislature
intended to convey.
 The issues are whether or not the act of the defendants constitutes
murder and whether or not they should face the death penalty as
required by the Law of the Commonwealth provision

POSSIBLE COUNTERARGUMENTS
- Unconstitutional
- Not logical; to kill their act of killing