"Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. [1] The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments are created to protect. Like the other principles in the ...

2018年7月3日 · The Declaration of Independence guarantees the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." What do you think the phrase "pursuit of happiness" means to most people who hear it today? I think most people think "pursuit" in that phrase means "chasing happiness" — as in the phrase "in hot pursuit."

2024年7月1日 · When Thomas Jefferson included “the pursuit of Happiness” as an unalienable right in the Declaration of Independence, he wasn't talking about fleeting joy. Here's the true meaning behind the...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

What exactly in the pursuit of happiness? Stated in the Declaration of Independence, it has some mystery behind it. Read about the pursuit of happiness.

2017年3月20日 · Happiness just doesn't seem like the right sort of thing to proclaim as a right in itself. The trouble is that a right to the pursuit of happiness may be counterproductive. For most...

2023年3月1日 · William Blackstone’s "Commentaries on the Laws of England" offers important clues about what Thomas Jefferson meant with the phrase immortalized in the Declaration of Independence. The idea of the “pursuit of happiness” is in our societal DNA. Yet, this “unalienable right,” immortalized in the Declaration of Independence, has often puzzled people.

2016年2月16日 · While the right to the pursuit of happiness may not be stated outright in the Constitution, the Supreme Court has, and continues to recognize this right, and to protect the many freedoms it encompasses. Even more broadly, the United States is not alone in recognizing a legal right to happiness.

2022年2月1日 · With respect to the pursuit of happiness, Blackstone said, “man should pursue his own true and substantial happiness.” But what leads to happiness is not personal gratification or individual autonomy without limits.

2008年1月27日 · “The pursuit of happiness” is the most famous phrase in the Declaration of Independence. Conventional history and popular wisdom attribute the phrase to the genius of Thomas Jefferson when in...