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The pursuit of happiness, a right to be granted to all American citizens as according to the Declaration of Independence, sounds as though it is a clear cut right of these very citizens. Still, there is controversy surrounding the idea of happiness. The very de ....

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.... 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 among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” The Rights of the American public are exactly what Thomas Jeff ....