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2000 ACF Nationals - Packet by Harvard - #18 [report this tossup]
This book is divided into two parts: Doctrine and Methodology, although the second section is much, much shorter. Identifying the title concept with man's free will, the work proceeds to construct a system of ethical philosophy based on the notion that moral feelings, rather than rational thought, are the only way to know God. FTP, identify this 1788 treatise on moral philosophy by Immanuel Kant which expounds the idea of the categorical imperative.
Answer: Critique of Practical Reason or Kritik der praktischen Vernunft

2007 ACF Nationals - Packet by Brown - #13 [report this tossup]
This man's son Henry was the first United States commissioner of patents. Though this man did not sign the Constitution, he promoted its ratification in his Letters of a Landholder. He reluctantly agreed to be appointed commisioner to France in 1799, three years after he took a position which had been declined by William Cushing. He proposed the use of the phrase "United States" as a member of the five-man committee which drafted the Constitution; that committee was chaired by the man who preceded him in his most prominent position, John Rutledge. He also joined with Roger Sherman to create the Connecticut Compromise. FTP, name this politician who was the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Answer: Oliver Ellsworth

2007 ACF Fall - Packet by ACF Editors and California-Irvine - #2 [report this tossup]
A "military medical commission" digs up a corpse and marches it with fanfare through a crowd in this author's poem "The Legend of the Dead Soldier." A wealthy merchant unjustly shoots his servant while crossing the Yahi Desert in his play The Exception and the Rule, while Azdak awards Michael to Grusha after she refuses to pull him out of the title location of his play The Caucasian Chalk Circle. The title character of another of his plays sees the deaths of Eilif, Swiss Cheese, and Kattrin while pulling her canteen during the Thirty Years War. Believing that actors should strive for an "alienation effect" to distance themselves from the audience, FTP, name this German playwright of The Threepenny Opera and Mother Courage and Her Children.
Answer: Bertolt Brecht