The words “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” are in what founding document?

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The words "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" are in the Declaration of Independence. They aren't in the Constitution, which is a common mix-up.

The phrase is in the Declaration's second paragraph. It says all people are born with certain rights that can't be taken away, called unalienable rights, and gives these three as examples. It then says governments are created to protect those rights, and that a government gets its power from the consent of the people.

Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration in 1776, and the Continental Congress adopted it on July 4 of that year. The idea that people have rights by nature, not as a gift from a ruler, was central to the colonists' case for independence.

Life means the right to live. Liberty means freedom. The pursuit of happiness means the freedom to seek a good life in your own way. When you hear these words at the interview, the answer is the Declaration of Independence.