Perms

A permutation is an argument from the government team which aims to prove that the counterplan by showing that the counterplan is not preferable to the affirmative plan. Permutation is frequently abbreviated as "perm".

A permutation takes the form of a statement of action which includes 100% of textual mandates of plan and all or part of the mandates of the counterplan, and //nothing else//. Permutations which fail to include all of the mandates of plan are described as severence perms. Permutations which include mandates found in neither plan nor counterplan text are described as intrinsic perms. Both severence and intrinsic perms are widely considered illegitimate.