Robert P. George discusses the philosophical foundations of the pursuit of happiness, how the meaning has changed, and the founders' views of human nature on the Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide To Happiness podcast by the National Constitution Center.

Our founders were realists about human nature. They knew a thing or two about the good parts of human nature and also the bad parts. And so they put into place in our Constitution a system of structural constraints on power knowing that no one, given the nature of human beings, could be trusted with unchecked and unaccountable power.

Robert P. George