In 1776 the definition of “happiness” which came from the Greeks as the “highest good” meant “human flourishing” which included all the cardinal virtues.
The Greek word “eudaimonia” which is translated to “happiness” is not a simplistic, 10 min orgasm type of “happiness” and Jefferson and the Founders understood it as the Greeks and the Christians after them. It never has meant a hedonistic, simplistic, materialistic, evil satanic version of ‘happiness” which is always evil and destroys long term happiness/flourishing always.
All the educated Greeks knew that without Virtue, there could be no Freedom. Vice makes slaves only so hedonism was thought as vice and all Just Laws promote only public virtue or else it is unjust law (unconstitutional).
eudaimonia = good spirit
The best spirit, of course, is had from worship of the Lord.
Morality and virtues are all good things, but like apples and oranges are good things. You first need what they grow on, to get them.