Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and “the pursuit of happiness” (Music: J.S. Bach, Goldberg Variations; Konstantin Lifschitz, piano)
Overview
PPT Slide
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; that to secure these rights,k 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.
Jefferson’s “ward-republics”
Property
Human nature
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