life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
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Inalienable, fundamental and inherent rights. 16 Am J2d Const L § 346. Substantially the same rights comprehended by the phrase life, liberty, and property. Ruhstrat v People, 185 Ill 133, 57 NE 41; Wyeth v State, 200 Mass 474, 86 NE 925. Inclusive of the enjoyment of all the comforts and pleasures which man's physical, intellectual, and moral nature is capable of acquiring and enjoying by the application and exercise of the various faculties with which he is endowed, and of all that the world can afford him. Lawrence E. Tierney Coal Co. v Smith, 180 Ky 815, 203 SW 731, 4 ALR 1540.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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