Original Post: There Is No Liberty Without Pursuit of Happiness.
What did Jefferson mean by “pursuit of happiness” as an unalienable right? If you’ve heard it was a substitute for “property” because Jefferson feared Southerners would equate property with slaves, you heard wrong. For weeks I have repeated a foundational belief of conservatism: every person deserves the dignity of meaningful work and the freedom to…
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