Which type of formal debate is typically about current events or philosophy

  The type of formal debate that it´s typically about current events or philosophy is Parliamentary debate.

  The parliamentary debate also referred as "parli" is an academic event taken by many university-level and high-school level English´s speaking institutions. It´s very similar to the Spontaneous Argumentation debate in which two debaters draw a topic at random.

  Parliamentary debates not require prior research. Resolutions are established only 10 minutes before a round of debates beggins. It´s because of this that persuasiveness and logic are strongly emphasized in this types of debates. They get it´s name because of their resemblance to the debates in British Parliament.

  A parliamentary debate is comprised of two teams with two debators per side. The team that affirm the resolutions is called Government and the team negating it gets the name of Opposition. As we said above each team has about 10 minutes to prepare each side of the case. After the preparation time finished the Government team with it´s first debater called Prime Minister start the debate. The second debater is called member of the government. The Opposition team firt speaker is the Leader of the Opposition and the second one is a member of the opposition.

  The Government team beggins and finish the debate; the first part of the debate is the constructive in which each team gives their opinions over and must present all the arguments. The final part is the rebuttal one and in there each team attacked the arguments of the other in order to support it´s position.

  When the debates concludes the judges fill out a ballot to select the winning side.

  I hope that the answer is correct and help you. Regards.

answer: c

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