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What the fuck is "Pursuit of Happiness" anyways? I mean, its flowery language. it has NO PURPOSE in a legal document.

Wrong. The concepts were well-understood by the founders, and the specific language to be used was discussed and debated. "Pursuit of happiness" includes a number of things, with the right to property being among those things. Jefferson's first draft had "life, liberty, and property," if I remember correctly.

He borrowed this language from the Virginia Declaration of Rights, written by George Mason (the true intellectual founder of America). But the Declaration committee changed to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," which necessarily includes property rights.

The rest of your rant goes on to say that the Constitution specifically says "property." So, which is it? Pursuit of happiness is bad language but property is good language -- which the Constitution includes, but which has also been ignored.

The FUNDAMENTAL problem is that there are people in this world that do not believe in the concept of FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, that exist ABOVE government.

The Declaration was supporting the idea that fundamental rights exist ABOVE government, and the Constitution supports that idea. So, people like us "get it."

But there are those who actually think that ALL rights come FROM government edict. Those are the blood thirsty communists and collectivists of all stripes.

They are the problem, not America's founding documents.

2 years ago
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