US CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The pursuit of Happiness is the attempt to attain and maintain that state of open-heartedness. The right to pursue Happiness is the right to open your heart as you choose. The right to pursue Happiness is the right to love as you choose; the right to love your freedom; the right to love your life.

Detailed explanation-2: -Remember that the pursuit of happiness, in the Declaration, is not a quest or a pastime, but “an unalienable right.” Everyone has the right to actuallybe happy, not just try to be happy. To use a metaphor: You don’t just get the chance to make the baseball team, you are guaranteed a spot.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was not until a 1923 decision that the United States Supreme Court recognized the pursuit of happiness at the national level when interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection of the right to liberty.