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"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.
The second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence starts: "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.-- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted ...
The American way of life or the American way is the U.S. nationalist ethos that adheres to the principle of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.At the center of the American way is the belief in an American Dream that is claimed to be achievable by any American through hard work.
[6]: 75 British Tories denounced the signers of the Declaration for not applying the same principles of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" to African Americans. [108] Thomas Hutchinson, the former royal governor of Massachusetts, also published a rebuttal. [109] [6]: 74 These pamphlets challenged various aspects of the Declaration ...
This tripartite motto is sometimes said to define Canadian values in a way comparable to “liberté, égalité, fraternité” (liberty, equality, fraternity) in France or “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the United States. [12] It has been used by some scholars to make broad characterizations of Canada's political culture.
Gallery VII, a pop-up gallery, at 116 E. King St. in York is hosting "The Pursuit of Happiness," art exhibit until Aug. 24.
The tenets of the American Dream originate from the Declaration of Independence, which states that "all men are created equal", and have an inalienable right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". [5]
Iowa Rep. Aime Wichtendahl, a Democrat and the state’s first openly transgender lawmaker, said this week that the bill deprives trans people “of our life, liberty, and our pursuit of happiness.”