Pursuit of happiness constitution10/17/2023 And yet, as a political aim, it is highly unusual - odd, even, with the oddness of squinting to discern a stroke of genius from a stroke of foolishness, unsure which it is we are perceiving. The notion of “the pursuit of happiness” has been with us long enough to have become normalized - not merely an item of the American Constitution, but a concept permeating the world’s popular culture in an infinite array of guises. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “What is happiness, anyhow? … so impalpable - a mere breath, an evanescent tinge,” Walt Whitman wondered in his diary exactly one hundred years after the Founding Fathers wove the pursuit of that evanescent tinge into the fabric of what Whitman considered America’s “democratic vistas.”
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