The Modest Novice LD Resolution

A comment from a few days ago:

As someone with no LD background, I have a question.  Say the negative wants to define civil disobedience to include violence.  Do the two teams debate about which definition is more accurate and better for debate like in policy or does the judge just sort of pick one?

Thanks,
K. Clark

Well, in LD, debaters could argue who has the better interpretation, but since this is novices, that level of sophistication would never arise in a meaningful way.