right to the pursuit of happiness

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   the right to try to find happiness

   Broaderhuman right

Questions about right to the pursuit of happiness

What does right to the pursuit of happiness mean?

right to the pursuit of happiness means "the right to try to find happiness".

Is right to the pursuit of happiness a common word?

right to the pursuit of happiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.