RIGHT TO THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The right to try to find happiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("right to the pursuit of happiness" is a kind of...):

human right ((law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law))

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