[eiffel]

I would not care to gamble, but you should know that the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" does not appear in the Constitution.
You may be thinking of Amendment V "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law," but I assure you, that phrase appears in the Declaration of Independence.

link to the Constitution online: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.table.html#articlei

[jwalsh07]

OK, now that we agree that the words life, liberty and property appear in the US Constitution, specifically in Amendments 5 and 14, we can now get back to the original point. You claimed that the Constitution does not speak to morality. I said thats hogwash. And I demonstrated the same by posting a relevant part of the 14 th Amendment.

Balls in your park.

Is there a "moral" basis for including this in the US COnstitution?

And by the way, the Bill of Rights and the subsequent amendments are an integral part of the US Constitution.