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	Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence.
		The expression "pursuit of happiness" was coined by Dr. Samuel Johnson in his 1759 novel Rasselas.
		An alternative phrase "life, liberty and property", is found in the Declaration of Colonial Rights, a resolution of the First Continental Congress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Life,_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness (304 words)

	NPR : Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
		NPR : Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
		I believe in its indivisibility, in the intimate connection between the newest bud of spring and the flicker in the eye of a patient near death, between the athlete in his prime and the quadriplegic vet, between the fetus in the womb and the mother who bears another life in her own body.
		I believe in a system of government that places that liberty at the center of its concerns, that enforces the law solely to protect that freedom, that sides with the individual against the claims of family and tribe and church and nation, that sees innocence before guilt and dignity before stigma.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4723006 (595 words)

	Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
		One of the enumerated rights of the Declaration, pursuit of happiness, is not found as such in Locke, who used the word happiness only three times in the Second Treatise, in quite restricted contexts.
		Thus, life, liberty, and happiness are indeed rooted in Scripture, and have the fullest meaning for Christians.
		For any who have caught the vision to restore religious liberty in this nation, and who desire all the fullness of Christ in His gifts of life, liberty, and happiness, now is the time to pray for the quickening and comfort of God, in the name of Jesus.
	www.avantrex.com /essay/freetalk.html (5219 words)

	Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
		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.
		As regards, the pursuit of happiness, I have never met anyone who was against happiness, who actually wanted to be unhappy.
		If economic life were based on Eternal Life, if political life were based on Spiritual Liberty and if social life were based on the pursuit of God's Will, then we would be living in a very different world from the one that seems now to be speeding to its suicide.
	www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk /life.htm (1178 words)

	“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”
		In heaven, life will no longer be limited by death, liberty will no longer be impeded by oppression and undermined by license, and the pursuit of happiness will no longer be bent by sin.
		First is “Life.” If we are not reasonably secure from the threat of death, then we cannot even begin to enjoy the “blessings of liberty” our Constitution proclaims as a primary goal of our country’s life, much less work out how we seek to pursue happiness in a land of life and liberty.
		But Jefferson’s insight that “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” are the rights of all means that they are the rights of people with disabilities as well.
	homepage.mac.com /dfrye/sermons/lifeliberty.htm (649 words)

	Rights
		The opposite to the right to life is life as a slave, where someone or some people essentially own you -- they can dictate what you do, when you do it, and take your life if they please.
		The right to liberty is a part of the right to life, specifically referring to your freedom of action.
		The right to the pursuit of happiness means a man is free to do anything he pleases, as long as it doesn't conflict with the rights of others.
	www.importanceofphilosophy.com /Politics_Rights.html (857 words)

	Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness - J.H. McKeithen
		What seemed self-evident to most people was the fact that a person’s life was subject to the will of whoever happened to be the ruler of his country.
		An unalienable right to life is self-evident only to those who see it as having been endowed by the Creator, who, according to the writer of Psalm 8, has made humankind just a little lower than himself and has crowned him with glory and honor.
		The members of the Continental Congress in 1776 wanted this country to be one in which a person could go about his or her life and work without fear of being arbitrarily and unjustly deprived of his freedom.
	www.hidenwood.com /Sermons/f3002.htm (1290 words)

	The Pursuit of Happiness [Mackinac Center for Public Policy]
		One modern threat to the pursuit of happiness can be illustrated by the actions of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan and the acclaim it has received on the world stage.
		The "pursuit of happiness" is not the same as "happiness." Our Founders had a solid and profound understanding of what it was like to live under a government which, without their consent, thought it knew what was best for them.
		In fact, one might even maintain that by so declaring the "pursuit" to be inalienable, they precluded the kind of state-manufactured definitions of happiness that the undemocratic Kingdom of Bhutan or, for that matter, the duly elected government of the United States would impose upon its citizens.
	www.mackinac.org /7801 (1065 words)

	America's path - The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of War - Book Review National Review - Find Articles
		Much of the conceptual power of this phrase derives from its linkage of the three: Life is necessary to liberty, and liberty to the pursuit of happiness.
		Locke had spoken of life, liberty, and property--explaining that by property he meant the "natural rights of man" not given him by king or ruler--and of the State itself as the basis of a "social contract" between the governed and those who governed them.
		The man condemned to the gallows has forfeited his right to life, the man in prison his liberty; the highwayman cannot claim a right to the "pursuit of happiness." The Declaration leaves open the specific arrangements for implementing such rights under law.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_1_56/ai_112493427 (725 words)

	The Truth Laid Bear
		Think of every human life as a decision tree starting at birth, and branching outward in a huge forrest of possible decisions and actions that all, eventually, lead down a path to that person's eventual demise.
		People arguing about maximizing happiness, on the other hand, are analagous to those same two refs arguing ---except one of them thinks the game is football, and the other thought they were judging hockey.
		Liberty: Because freedom is the foundation upon which all else rests.
	www.truthlaidbear.com /archives/2002/06/17/life_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness.php (1616 words)

	Dust in the Light: Ensuring Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		That's all that is appropriate for government to do: protect men's equal rights to life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness, not concerning itself with what consenting adults do within the privacy of their own home.
		I certainly wouldn't argue that property is not a "vital concern," and I had written (but edited out) that Jon put property on the same level as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
		Locke could write of limiting government to life, liberty and property because much of the rest of social control over antisocial individuals was handled by a social norm.
	dustinthelight.timshelarts.com /lint/001087.html (2155 words)

	Prison Planet.com: Do You Have the Knowledge to Escape?
		Such a request could only be made on a brainwashed population that has been manipulated to believe that the selfish pursuit of happiness is wrong.
		Perhaps you will never be capable of understanding their true motives because your love of our way of life makes you assume that they must love it even more.
		Our way of life is the object of their hatred because it is not far enough removed from their way of life.
	www.prisonplanet.com /lacey110603.html (1433 words)

	JOLLYBLOGGER: Richard Pratt on Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
		The best way a Christian could spin the statement - we have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - would be to say that we as Christians would be willing to die, to be enslaved, and to suffer that others might have life, liberty and happiness.
		Or, maybe we could say that the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are necessary to a well-ordered civil society.
		The same goes for pursuit of happiness if your pursuit of happiness involves the freedom to move on or the freedom to continue living if you have been convicted of a capital crime.
	jollyblogger.typepad.com /jollyblogger/2006/10/richard_pratt_o.html (1998 words)

	Post : Military Matters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Life: This is the most basic endowment, No one cedes their right to defend their life or another's, ever.
		Liberty: The only reason to tolerate any government is to provide the governed opportunity to enjoy Liberty.
		Happy Fourth of July to all, now I am off to do some of that happiness pursuit.
	madison.com /post/blogs/militarymatters/index.php?ntid=45717&ntpid=2 (1296 words)

	D'Alliance
		We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
		This brings us to the pursuit of happiness, which for many involves the recreational ingestion of psychoactive substances.
		Besides, how can a government be so arrogant as to choose the kind of fun that mature adult citizens can have, especially when the recreational drugs it has chosen to allow--alcohol and tobacco--are so much more destructive than many (if not most) illicit drugs.
	blog.drugpolicy.org /2006/07/life-liberty-and-pursuit-of-happiness.html (580 words)

	Focus on news, politics, etc.: Life, Liberty & Pursuit of Happiness (WrennCom.Com TM since 1999)
		The Declaration of Independence proclaimed "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" to be inalienable rights, but the Bill of Rights changed the phrase to "life, liberty and property.
		The intrinsic, emotional desirability of the pursuit of happiness virtually guaranteed its widespread acceptance as a goal of the revolution and enhanced the slogan's motivational effect.
		If all Americans were asked to complete the phrase, "America stands for life, liberty and ___," the vast majority would say "pursuit of happiness." Few would say "property," because few understand property to be the Constitution's description of a human-rights concept essential to liberty from oppressive government.
	www.wrenncom.com /focus2001/0704-01.asp (2134 words)

	Preserving Life & Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas Jefferson wrote eloquently that governments are instituted among men to secure the inalienable rights of the people… treasured rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
		This is the first responsibility of government: to preserve the lives and liberty of the people.
		We have constructed America's defense… the defense of life and liberty… upon a foundation of prevention, nurtured by cooperation, built on coordination and rooted in our Constitutional liberties.
	lifeandliberty.gov /subs/speeches/patriotactroadspeech_boise_082503.htm (2375 words)

	FIDELIO article--Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness-Vattel's Law of Nations by R. Trout. 1997
		The desire of happiness is the powerful spring that puts man in motion: felicity is the end they all have in view, and it ought to be the grand object of the public will.
		Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
		The first duty of the sovereign is "providing for the all wants of the people, and producing a happy plenty of all the necessaries of life, with its conveniences and innocent and laudable enjoyments." This allows them to better labor after their principal duty, which is their own perfection.
	www.schillerinstitute.org /fid_97-01/971_vattel.html (7117 words)

	Microcinema Film: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Tiffany Shlain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Playfully updating the 1950's school documentary, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" offers up political and social satire regarding the current state of reproductive rights in a fast-paced spoonful.
		Found-footage, animation and original images are interwoven into a collage containing the fictional stories of a conservative politician, a young couple, and a fundamentalist activist (portrayed by Survival Research Laboratories founder Mark Pauline) along with the decline in amphibian populations and the insidious creeping erosion of reproductive rights in the United States.
		Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness is one of the all time best videos I have seen on a social issue.
	www.microcinema.com /titleResults.php?content_id=687 (454 words)

	MPR: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
		Midmorning takes a closer look at the meaning of liberty, and how it has changed since the U.S. Constitution was framed.
		He is also the author of "Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty" (Princeton 2004) and "The Structure of Liberty (oxford 1998).
		Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (call-in show)
	minnesota.publicradio.org /display/web/2006/05/29/midmorning1 (169 words)

	Patriotic Sermon By Dr. Chester E. Ratliff, (1920 - 1995)
		There is where everlasting life comes in but we think so much about this life that we forget about the life that is to come until we are ready to die.
		If you want to live the life God expects us to live, the super kind of life, the abundant life, the only way we can life it is in Jesus Christ.
		The statue of liberty sits on Liberty Island, it used to be Bedlow Island till 1957 when they changed the name to Liberty Island.
	www.gospelweb.net /patrioticsermon.htm (2070 words)

	Jonathon Delacour: Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Sadness
		And (perhaps mistakenly) I’ve always regarded Jefferson’s assertion that the pursuit of Happiness is an unalienable Right as a kind of denial of the rightful place of sadness in human experience—that in pursuing happiness we are simultaneously fleeing sadness.
		I never did; I never will.” That he cannot trust the happiness which is the direct fruit of his reawakened faith in God, in his wife’s love, and in his own courage and dignity.
		So, in another sense, his admission that he doesn’t trust happiness indicates his willingness to be truly honest to the woman who has done so much to bring him happiness.
	weblog.delacour.net /archives/2003/09/life_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_sadness.php (2097 words)

	Fiedor Report on the News 303
		When he wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson took a little editorial liberty with the phrase "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Consequently, if we modern Americans are to fully understand our own personal rights and liberties, this requires a little explanation.
		Jefferson took the editorial liberty of changing "property" to "pursuit of happiness," knowing full well that all Colonial Americans would understand exactly what was meant.
		LIFE -- The Right of Personal Security: "This right consists of a person's legal and uninterrupted enjoyment of his life, his limbs, his body, his health and his reputation." Herein can also be found your right of self defense.
	www.uhuh.com /reports/headsup/fron303.htm (2109 words)

	Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness @ Blogcritics.org
		I put in bold the facets in which pursuit of happiness is usually brought up in a court of law, that I (a non-lawyer) am aware of.
		When Jefferson wrote the draft it read 'property' instead of 'pursuit of happiness', but Adams and Franklin who were overseeing the project decided to change the wording in order to avoid any suggestion that the new country would be guaranteeing free land ownership to anyone who immigrated.
		And of course all of the other founding documents include the reference to property which is one of the three cornerstones along with life and liberty of our fundamental natural rights.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/06/13/221645.php (3581 words)

	Pursuit of Happiness
		However, the right to the pursuit of happiness is often raised in arguments against government regulations, because its mention in the Declaration of Independence gives it a degree of forcefulness.
		Although the phrase "pursuit of happiness" is not set forth in the U. Constitution, it is set forth in several state Constitutions.
		For most people, marriage would be considered "in the pursuit of happiness."The United States Supreme Court, in recognizing that marriage is a fundamental right, stated that "the freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness." Loving v.
	www.fa-ir.org /ai/happiness.htm (766 words)

	Spare Change: ~~Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness~~
		Death is not the opposite of life, it is the cessation of life.
		However, the right to "life" must be constitutionally protected, for it can be taken away by those who would choose to do so.
		The means by which death comes to a person is life's great variable, and no government can offer guarantees or promises on how a person (much less one who cannot speak for herself) should come to it (save those who earned the deprivation of their basic civil rights because of criminal offense).
	www.twosents.net /blog/archives/002690.php (766 words)

	Amazon.com: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Books: Peggy Noonan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Hardcover)
		In three parts as indicated by the title, former White House speechwriter Noonan (What I Saw at the Revolution) recounts life as a single mother in New York City, reflects on the 1992 presidential campaign and records her quest for a deeper sense of Christian spirituality.
		Noonan has lived the examined life, but in writing of one of her former employers (Ronald Reagan) she observed that the unexamined life actually IS worth living, contrary to the ancient philosopher's assertion.
	www.amazon.com /Liberty-Pursuit-Happiness-Peggy-Noonan/dp/0679401601 (1575 words)

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