Sparks Commentary

“I heartily accept the motto,—‘That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and system...

“We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in a...

John Dewey was one of the most influential philosophers to come out of the then-rising United States . Specifically, he lived in the ninetee...

William James and Charles Sanders Peirce are two of the most influential philosophers to come out of the United States . They made contribut...

“On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate...

Joseph Story was a U. S. Supreme Court justice, appointed by President James Madison In 1812, President James Madison appointed a new just...

“The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this constitution , or on the applica...

So I recently finished listening to an audiobook about the American economist  Frank Knight , who lived from 1885 to 1972. It was just call...

“Resolved. that the right of suffrage in the first branch of the national Legislature ought not to be according to the rule established in t...

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

I recently finished listening to an audiobook called “Monetarism and Supply Side Economics.” In a way, it was almost like two audiobooks tha...

So I recently finished listening to an audiobook about the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen , who lived from 1857 to 1929. It w...

“And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alterat...

“That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights , of which, when they enter into a state of...