Question

In the declaration of independence what did thomas jefferson declared life liberty and the pursuit of happiness to be

Answer 1

"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the "unalienable rights" which the Declaration says have been given to all human beings by their Creator, and which governments are created to protect.

Answer 2

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson declared Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness to be Inalienable Rights.

Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of Declaration.The Preamble of the Declaration reads “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”