ings, Esquire, of high crimes and misdemeanors.

I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain, in
Parliament assembled, whose parliamentary trust he has betrayed.

I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, whose
national character he has dishonored.

I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws,
rights, and liberties he has subverted, whose property he has
destroyed, whose country he has laid waste and desolate.

I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of
justice which he has violated.

I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has
cruelly outraged, injured, and oppressed in both sexes, in every
age, rank, situation, and condition of life.

4. Take any one of the following propositions and without other
material than that of your own ideas, state at least two issues, and,
in correct brief form, proof for belief or unbelief.

(1) High-School Boys Should Smoke Cigarettes.

(2) No One Should Play Football without a Physician's Permission.

(3) Girls Should Participate in Athletic Games While in High School.

(4) High-School Fraternities Are Desirable.

(5) Women Should Have the Right to Vote in All Elections.

LESSON VII

THE FORENSIC

I. What the forensic is.

II. How the forensic may be developed and delivered:
1. By writing and reading from manuscript:
(1) Advantages and disadvantages.
2. By writing and committing to memory:
(1) Advantages and disadvantages.
3. By oral development from the brief:
(1) Advantages.
III. Style and gestures in the delivery of the forensic.

When the brief is finished, the material is ready to be put into its
final form. This final form is called the _forensic_.

As practically all debates are conducted by means of teams, the work
of preparing the forensic is usually divided among the members of the
team. The brief may be divided in any way, but it is desirable that
each member of the team should have one complete, logical division. So
it often happens that each member of the team develops one issue into
its final form.

The forensic is nothing but a rounding-out of the brief. The brief is
a skeleton: the forensic is that skeleton developed into a complete
literary form. Into this form the oral delivery breathes the spirit of
living ideas.

No better illustration of the brief expanded into th