Unalienable Rights and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Legacy of the Declaration of Independence

Name Institutional affiliations Date As far as the Declaration of independence is concerned, the self-evident truths that Jefferson talked about were that all men are equal. Their creator endows them with certain unalienable rights (Jefferson, 2019). Jefferson further expounded on the unalienable rights, which included the right to life, liberty, and the right to pursue happiness. In any case, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence emphasized that everybody deserved to live a happy life because a supreme being created all to be happy and fulfill a purpose. On the other hand, the government, which is instituted among men, Jefferson (2019), must ensure that the people who must be well