Sparks Commentary

“The objects of the laws of England are so very numerous and extensive, that, in order to consider them with any tolerable ease and perspic...

Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the founding feminist philosophers. Her 1792 work “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” is one of the class...

“I openly confess, the suggestion of David Hume was the very thing, which many years ago first awakened me from my dogmatic slumber , and ga...

“I propose, in a series of papers, to discuss the following interesting particulars : The utility of the Union to your political prosperity;...

“[The Congress shall have the power] To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers,...

“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establi...

I’ve read  Rousseau’s “The Social Contract” itself  in the original French . Thus, you might expect me to be something of a “fan” of this wo...

Voltaire and Rousseau disagreed with each other on many issues. Nonetheless, they do have at least one thing in common, which is that they w...

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own inter...

"The political liberty of the [citizen] is a tranquillity of mind, arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order t...