Editing Debate (section)

=== Student debating societies ===
{{Main|College literary societies|List of college literary societies}}
[[Princeton University]] in the [[Thirteen Colonies|future United States of America]] was home to several short-lived student debating societies throughout the mid-1700s. The [[American Whig-Cliosophic Society|American Whig Society]] at the university was co-founded in 1765 by future revolutionary [[James Madison]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The American Whig-Cliosophic Society |url=https://whigclio.princeton.edu/ |access-date=2024-01-26 |website=The American Whig-Cliosophic Society |language=en-US}}</ref>

The [[Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies]] were formed at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] in 1795 and are still active. They are considered the first of the post-revolutionary debating societies.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

[[File:A debate at the Union Club - c1887.JPG|thumb|A debate at the [[Cambridge Union Society]] ({{Circa|1887}})|right]]

The first student debating society in Great Britain was the [[University of St Andrews Union Debating Society|St Andrews Debating Society]], formed in 1794 as the ''Literary Society''. The [[Cambridge Union Society]] was founded in 1815 and claims to be the oldest continually operating debating society in the World.<ref>[http://www.cus.org/about/history-union History of the Union | The Cambridge Union Society] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224120439/http://www.cus.org/about/history-union |date=2013-12-24 }}. Cus.org. Retrieved on 2013-07-15.</ref>

Over the next few decades, similar debate societies emerged at several other prominent universities, including the [[Oxford Union]], the [[Durham Union]], the [[Yale Political Union]], and the [[Conférence Olivaint]].
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