To the Founders who wrote the Declaration of Independence, the phrase “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” had a very specific meaning. As men of great ideas and talents they understood it means the freedom to practice public virtue unconstrained- think of Benjamin Franklin and his focus on perfecting one of thirteen virtues such as temperance, frugality, humility, or justice. The practice of public virtue and improving oneself was foun…
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