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right to the pursuit of happiness

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Noun1.right to the pursuit of happiness - the right to try to find happiness
human right - (law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law)


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All of these supposed benefits however ignore the right to the pursuit of happiness underlined in the constitution and a well policed online gambling establishment could be the key to happiness for dozens of individuals in Illinois who are being denied it.
Political theorists John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Stephen Walt (Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government) show how the right to the pursuit of happiness presently enables foreign governments to exert adverse influence over foreign-policy questions of war and peace simply by coordinating the expression of private citizens' ostensible self-interest.
GMJ: That seems contrary to the Declaration of Independence, which claims for Americans the right to the pursuit of happiness.
 
 
 
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