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Further Reflections on the Constitutional Justice of Livelihood
Black, Charles
Black, Charles
Abstract
The first words uttered by the new American people claimed, for all humankind, equality in creation, and acknowledged the rights to life, to liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness, as gifts of God to His human creatures. It is not wonderful that Catherine the Great grew troubled in mind, and mounted a diplomatic offensive designed to bring about the failure of our Revolution. And the ghost of La Rochefoucauld must have smiled, for his most famous maxim, published about a century before, had attained quintessential illustration.