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Cicero and the Constitution
We the People
The Pursuit of Happiness
Cicero's tuskeling disputations is cited repeatedly by so many of the major founding fathers as their definition of the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson would send to anyone who wrote to him kids of friends who were going to law school or students of all kinds who asked him for the definition of happiness a passage from the tuskeled disputations. This is the passage that Jefferson quoted and it was also quoted by Benjamin Franklin in his 13 virtues and by John Adams by John Quincy Adams here it is therefore the man whoever he is whose soul is tranquilized by restraint and consistency and who is at peace with himself, is the wise man of whom we are in quest
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