john lee fisher, jr
6 min readJul 12, 2018

THE INDIVIDUAL PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

The individual pursuit of happiness coupled with equality in the treatment of the rights and privileges of citizens by government, historically, has been the primary objective of, our constitutional democratic, republican form of government. Combined with the governmental principle of, separation of church and state, our founding fathers assured us of, a future. In which we could not be, persecuted because of our religious beliefs or lifestyles. Our Founding Fathers chose the constitutional republican democracy form of government coupled with the separation of church and state over monarchy, pure democracy, and pure…