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What did Thomas Jefferson mean by the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

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Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their creator, and which governments are created
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