History
Traditionally, rebuttals were half the length of constructive speeches, 8-4 in high school and 10-5 in college. The now-prevailing speech time of 8-5 in high school and college was introduced in the 1990s. Some states, such as Missouri, Massachusetts and Colorado, still use the 8-4 format at the high school level.
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“We aspire to be something more than stupid and timid chattels, pretending to read history and our Bibles, but desecrating every house and every day we breathe in.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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