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The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era - An Intellectual History (Paperback, 1)
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The Pursuit of Happiness in the Founding Era - An Intellectual History (Paperback, 1)
Series: Studies in Constitutional Democracy
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Scholars have long debated the meaning of the pursuit of happiness,
yet have tended to define it narrowly, focusing on a single
intellectual tradition, and on the use of the term within a single
text, the Declaration of Independence. In this insightful volume,
Carli Conklin considers the pursuit of happiness across a variety
of intellectual traditions, and explores its usage in two key legal
texts of the Founding Era, the Declaration and William Blackstone's
Commentaries on the Laws of England. For Blackstone, the pursuit of
happiness was a science of jurisprudence, by which his students
could know, and then rightly apply, the first principles of the
Common Law. For the founders, the pursuit of happiness was the
individual right to pursue a life lived in harmony with the law of
nature and a public duty to govern in accordance with that law.
Both applications suggest we consider anew how the phrase, and its
underlying legal philosophies, were understood in the founding era.
With this work, Conklin makes important contributions to the fields
of early American intellectual and legal history.
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