I was thinking this morning about how a group of climate activists recently went to court in Montana for violating their state constitution in relation to climate change and how the state guaranteed them a safe environment.
Then I started thinking about the current state of things and how money and lack their of us really encroaching on people's happiness. Almost no adult making the minimum wage can realistically live on $7.25, and how much money and the current state of things is encroaching on people's happiness.
I'm not sure how enforceable happiness can be as an idea and I'm not a lawyer so I have no idea how enforceable the declaration of independences versus say the Constitution or a state constitution… But it seems to me the government is violating our rights under the current state of things.
I'd love to hear other's thoughts on this.
“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.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”