To the Editor:
“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” To our Founding Fathers, the idea of the “Pursuit of Happiness” encompassed what most of us today think of as basic civil liberties. No one would disagree that the right to free speech, the right to religion, and the right to peacefully assemble are just three examples essential to being American. They were so important to the Framers of the Constitution that it was the very first Amendment that began this great experiment we now call the United States of America.
