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Oratorical

The

American Legion

JE Lanier. Post 27

PO Box 2767

Richmond Hill, Ga 31324

e-mail adj@galegionpost27.org

 

 

Oratorical Contest Application

Local Contest 19 January 2004, 7:30pm, location Magnolia Manner

 

Name_________________________________________________________________

 

Address_______________________________________________________________

 

City_________________________________ St_______ Zip____________________

 

Phone_____________________ E-mail Address______________________________

Complete, detach, and return to Post 27 by 15 December 2003.

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Prizes

Local Contest $100 Scholarship                                1st District- $150 1st prize

Area-$350 1st  prize                                                    Dept Ga- $1300.00 1st prize

National $18,000 Scholarship

See complete rules at http://www.legion.org/?section=prog_evt&subsection=evt_oratorical&content=evt_oratopic

 

Eligibility

Eligible participants in The American Legion National High School Oratorical Contest shall be citizens of or lawful permanent residents of the United States.

All contestants must be bona fide students herein described as any student under the age of twenty (20) years on the date of the National Contest who is presently enrolled in a high school or junior high school (public, parochial, military, private or state accredited home school) in which the curriculum of said high school is considered to be of high school level, commencing with grade nine (9) and terminating with grade twelve (12). Students must be enrolled in high school or junior high school during the time of participation at any level of The American Legion National High School Oratorical Contest.

The three finalists of the National Contest will be ineligible for further participation at any level.

The Oration

The subject to be used for the Prepared Oration in the Oratorical Contest must be on some phase of the Constitution of the United States which will give emphasis to the attendant duties and obligations of a citizen to our government. The same subject and oration used in the Department Contest must be used in the National Contest.

Contestants may have in their possession a copy of their Prepared Oration in the First Holding Room. They may consult the copy of their Prepared Oration, until they exit the holding room in order to begin the contest, at which time the copy of the Prepared Oration will be surrendered to the contest official who is monitoring the First Holding Room.

In the Prepared Oration, as well as in the Assigned Topic Discourse, quotations must be indicated as such. Where quotations are more than ten words in length, the author’s name must be given in the manuscript and cited orally.

Assigned Topics for 2004

Article 1 Section 3 clause 6

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
 

Article 4 Section 2 clauses 1, 2
Clause 1

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.

 

Clause 2

A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
 

Amendment 8

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
 

Amendment 14 Section 1

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws

The Assigned Topic Discourse must not consume less than three (3) minutes or more than five (5) minutes for delivery. The purpose of the Assigned Topic Discourse is to test the speaker’s knowledge of the subject, the extent of his or her research, and the ability to discuss the topic as related to the basic principles of government under the Constitution.

The Assigned Topic shall be drawn by the contest official in full view of the audience immediately before the last speaker begins delivery of his/her Prepared Oration and will be made known to the audience and each contestant approximately five (5) minutes prior to the time of delivery. The topic will be on some phase of the Constitution of the United States, selected from Articles and Sections as listed under Assigned Topics for the current year’s contest.

All contestants at each contest level are required to speak in the English language on the same Assigned Topic.