A servant girl rescues a governor's abandoned child during a revolution and raises him as her own. When the biological mother returns, a drunken judge devises a test. Brecht rewrote the Solomon story with a Marxist twist: the child belongs to whoever is useful to the child. The judge Azdak is one of the great comic characters in modern drama.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.