If the right to life is a civil rights matter and therefore a federal matter because it is described in the Declaration of Independence, would it not follow that the right to the pursuit of happiness is also a civil rights matter and therefore a federal matter because it is also described in the Declaration of Independence? See if you can imagine there to be any limitations on the powers of a Government that is authorized to see to it that its subjects are not deprived of the right to the pursuit of happiness.