We’re delighted to bring you an episode devoted to the legal relevance of the Declaration’s most famous sentence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”.
This video is the full, unedited version of a webinar from July 7th, hosted by the James Wilson Institute in partnership with the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy at First Liberty Institute. Professor Carli N. Conklin, an associate professor at University of Missouri School of Law, an associate professor of constitutional democracy and former associate director at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, and director of the School of Law’s Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution.
Where do Blackstone and the Founders agree and disagree in their understanding of the Pursuit of Happiness? What practical role did they suggest the concept might serve in English and early American law and legal philosophy? Watch as Professor Conklin covers these fascinating topics in the above video, and takes questions from the audience.
