Unaalienable Rights

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What does unalienable rights really mean? Unalienable rights are also known as inalienable rights the term is actually Latin meaning eternity so these rights can’t be taken away or “alienated” (1) since we have had these rights from birth. The pursuit of Happiness was thought to be an unalienable right by our founding fathers. The definition of happiness is different then what it’s today. When the framers of the declaration of independence wrote “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,”(2) What did happiness really mean? To some the term may mean something totally different to each individual. “The term happiness comes from the Old Norse term happ meaning “luck” or “chance.” It’s also related to the Old English word hæpic meaning “equal.” While early senses of happiness dating from the 1500s are still very much in use, such …show more content…

Freedom is a big right that we have freedom represents a lot of things but a major one being is freedom of religion. Freedom of religion meaning that people have the right to practice and express any religion they please such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and Jehovah witness. Another right that we have is equality meaning all men are created equal. This is a big right now and days but it wasn’t all ways that way such as racism and people believe that it is still that way to this day. An example of equality is that we are all treated the same we all have our rights one right could be our fifth and sixth amendment the right to a fast and speedy trial and we can’t be trialed for the same thing twice. Another form of equality I believe people associate it, with is race people believe that it’s a non-stop problem a recent case that could associate with this is Trayvon Martin many know this case but people don’t know the full story but many believe a major factor that was played in this incident was

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