Pop music - wikipedia Pop music Jump to : navigation , search This article is about a specific music genre . For popular music in general , see Popular music . For other uses , see Pop music ( disambiguation ) . `` Pop song '' redirects here . For other uses , see Pop Song . Pop Stylistic origins Traditional pop rock and roll folk Cultural origins Mid-1950s , United States and United Kingdom Derivative forms Disco Subgenres Art pop Brill Building bubblegum pop dance - pop experimental pop hypnagogic pop operatic pop progressive pop sophisti - pop space age pop sunshine pop synth - pop teen pop Fusion genres Baroque pop beat Contemporary Christian country pop electropop indie pop jangle pop Latin pop noise pop pop punk pop - rap pop rock power pop psychedelic pop R&B reggae fusion smooth jazz smooth soul Regional scenes China India Indonesia Hong Kong Italy Japan Korea Malaysia Mexican Morocco Pakistan Philippines Russia Scandinavia Sweden Taiwan Thailand Turkey United Kingdom United States Vietnam Western Europe Other topics Avant - pop pop music automation poptimism rock music Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s . The terms `` popular music '' and `` pop music '' are often used interchangeably , although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many different styles . `` Pop '' and `` rock '' were roughly synonymous terms until the late 1960s , when they became increasingly differentiated from each other . Although much of the music that appears on record charts is seen as pop music , the genre is distinguished from chart music . Pop music is eclectic , and often borrows elements from other styles such as urban , dance , rock , Latin , and country ; nonetheless , there are core elements that define pop music . Identifying factors include generally short to medium - length songs written in a basic format ( often the verse - chorus structure ) , as well as common use of repeated choruses , melodic tunes , and hooks . Contents ( hide ) 1 Definitions and etymology 2 Characteristics 3 Development and influence 3.1 Stylistic evolution 3.2 Technology and media 3.3 Legitimacy in music criticism 3.4 International spread 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links Definitions and etymology ( edit ) David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as `` a body of music which is distinguishable from popular , jazz , and folk musics '' . According to Pete Seeger , pop music is `` professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music '' . Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts , it is not the sum of all chart music . The music charts contain songs from a variety of sources , including classical , jazz , rock , and novelty songs . Pop music , as a genre , is seen as existing and developing separately . Thus `` pop music '' may be used to describe a distinct genre , designed to appeal to all , often characterized as `` instant singles - based music aimed at teenagers '' in contrast to rock music as `` album - based music for adults '' . Pop music continuously evolves along with the term 's definition . According to The New Grove Dictionary Of Music and Musicians , popular music is defined as `` the music since industrialization in the 1800s that is most in line with the tastes and interests of the urban middle class . '' The term `` pop song '' was first recorded as being used in 1926 , in the sense of a piece of music `` having popular appeal '' . Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry , including in country , blues and hillbilly music . The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that the term `` pop '' refers to music performed by such artists as the Rolling Stones ( pictured here in a 2006 performance ) According to the website of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , called Grove Music Online , the term `` pop music '' `` originated in Britain in the mid-1950s as a description for rock and roll and the new youth music styles that it influenced '' . The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pop 's `` earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience ... since the late 1950s , however , pop has had the special meaning of non-classical mus ( ic ) , usually in the form of songs , performed by such artists as the Beatles , the Rolling Stones , ABBA , etc '' . Grove Music Online also states that `` ... in the early 1960s , ( the term ) ' pop music ' competed terminologically with beat music ( in England ) , while in the USA its coverage overlapped ( as it still does ) with that of ' rock and roll ' '' . From about 1967 , the term was increasingly used in opposition to the term rock music , a division that gave generic significance to both terms . Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of popular music , pop was more commercial , ephemeral and accessible . According to British musicologist Simon Frith , pop music is produced `` as a matter of enterprise not art '' , is `` designed to appeal to everyone '' and `` does n't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste '' . It is `` not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward ... and , in musical terms , it is essentially conservative '' . It is , `` provided from on high ( by record companies , radio programmers , and concert promoters ) rather than being made from below ... Pop is not a do - it - yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged '' . Characteristics ( edit ) The Righteous Brothers -- `` You 've Lost That Lovin ' Feelin ' '' ( 1965 ) As of 2011 , `` You 've Lost That Lovin ' Feelin ' '' ranks as the most frequently played song in US radio history , described by music writers Nick Logan and Bob Woffinden as `` the ultimate pop record '' . Problems playing this file ? See media help . According to Frith , characteristics of pop music include an aim of appealing to a general audience , rather than to a particular sub-culture or ideology , and an emphasis on craftsmanship rather than formal `` artistic '' qualities . Music scholar Timothy Warner said it typically has an emphasis on recording , production , and technology , rather than live performance ; a tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments ; and aims to encourage dancing or uses dance - oriented rhythms . The main medium of pop music is the song , often between two and a half and three and a half minutes in length , generally marked by a consistent and noticeable rhythmic element , a mainstream style and a simple traditional structure . Common variants include the verse - chorus form and the thirty - two - bar form , with a focus on melodies and catchy hooks , and a chorus that contrasts melodically , rhythmically and harmonically with the verse . The beat and the melodies tend to be simple , with limited harmonic accompaniment . The lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes -- often love and romantic relationships -- although there are notable exceptions . Harmony and chord progressions in pop music are often `` that of classical European tonality , only more simple - minded . '' Clichés include the barbershop quartet - style harmony ( i.e. ii -- V -- I ) and blues scale - influenced harmony . There was a lessening of the influence of traditional views of the circle of fifths between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s , including less predominance for the dominant function . Development and influence ( edit ) Stylistic evolution ( edit ) See also : Traditional pop , Pop rock , Experimental pop , Orchestral pop , Progressive pop , Synthpop , and Indie pop This section is missing information about the 1980s -- 2000s . Please expand the section to include this information . Further details may exist on the talk page . ( October 2017 ) Throughout its development , pop music has absorbed influences from other genres of popular music . Early pop music drew on the sentimental ballad for its form , gained its use of vocal harmonies from gospel and soul music , instrumentation from jazz and rock music , orchestration from classical music , tempo from dance music , backing from electronic music , rhythmic elements from hip - hop music , and spoken passages from rap . In the 1960s , the majority of mainstream pop music fell in two categories : guitar , drum and bass groups or singers backed by a traditional orchestra . Since early in the decade , it was common for pop producers , songwriters , and engineers to freely experiment with musical form , orchestration , unnatural reverb , and other sound effects . Some of the best known examples are Phil Spector 's Wall of Sound and Joe Meek 's use of homemade electronic sound effects for acts like the Tornados . At the same time , pop music on radio and in both American and British film moved away from refined Tin Pan Alley to more eccentric songwriting and incorporated reverb - drenched rock guitar , symphonic strings , and horns played by groups of properly arranged and rehearsed studio musicians . During the mid-1960s , pop music made repeated forays into new sounds , styles , and techniques that inspired public discourse among its listeners . The word `` progressive '' was frequently used , and it was thought that every song and single was to be a `` progression '' from the last . Music critic Simon Reynolds writes that beginning with 1967 , a divide would exist between `` progressive '' pop and `` mass / chart '' pop , a separation which was `` also , broadly , one between boys and girls , middle - class and working - class . '' Before the progressive pop of the late 1960s , performers were typically unable to decide on the artistic content of their music . Assisted by the mid-1960s economic boom , record labels began investing in artists , giving them freedom to experiment , and offering them limited control over their content and marketing . This situation fell in disuse after the late 1970s and would not reemerge until the rise of Internet stars . Indie pop , which developed in the late 1970s , marked another departure from the glamour of contemporary pop music , with guitar bands formed on the then - novel premise that one could record and release their own music without having to procure a record contract from a major label . In 2014 , pop music worldwide was permeated by electronic dance music . A Scientific Reports study that examined over 464,000 recordings of popular music recorded between 1955 and 2010 found less variety in pitch progressions , growing average loudness levels , less diverse instrumentation and recording techniques , and less timbral variety , which declined after reaching a peak in the 1960s . Scientific American 's John Matson reported that this `` seems to support the popular anecdotal observation that pop music of yore was `` better '' , or at least more varied , than today 's top - 40 stuff . '' Technology and media ( edit ) Left , Michael Jackson ; right , Madonna known respectively as the `` King and Queen of Pop '' . In the 1940s improved microphone design allowed a more intimate singing style and ten or twenty years later inexpensive and more durable 45 r.p.m. records for singles `` revolutionized the manner in which pop has been disseminated '' and helped to move pop music to ' a record / radio / film star system ' . Another technological change was the widespread availability of television in the 1950s ; with televised performances , `` pop stars had to have a visual presence '' . In the 1960s , the introduction of inexpensive , portable transistor radios meant that First World teenagers could listen to music outside of the home . Multi-track recording ( from the 1960s ) ; and digital sampling ( from the 1980s ) have also been utilized as methods for the creation and elaboration of pop music . By the early 1980s , the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of music television channels like MTV , which `` favoured those artists such as Michael Jackson and Madonna who had a strong visual appeal '' . Legitimacy in music criticism ( edit ) See also : Poptimism The latter half of the 20th - century included a large - scale trend in American culture in which the boundaries between art and pop music were increasingly blurred . Between 1950 and 1970 , there was a debate of pop versus art . Since then , certain music publications have embraced its legitimacy . According to Popmatters ' Robert Loss : `` There 's a strong argument for the ' rockist ' mode in music criticism -- that it exists , and that it 's harmful -- and poptimism has positioned itself as a corrective , an antidote ... In general , the Old Guard of rock critics and journalists is depicted as a bunch of bricklayers for the foundations of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . True in part , which is to say , false . Like film studies , rock criticism of the late ' 60s and the ' 70s was an attempt to make popular music worthy of study ; it was poptimism before its day . '' International spread ( edit ) The story of pop music is largely the story of the intertwining pop culture of the United States and the United Kingdom in the postwar era . `` '' -- Bob Stanley Pop music has been dominated by the American and ( from the mid-1960s ) British music industries , whose influence has made pop music something of an international monoculture , but most regions and countries have their own form of pop music , sometimes producing local versions of wider trends , and lending them local characteristics . Some of these trends ( for example Europop ) have had a significant impact of the development of the genre . According to Grove Music Online , `` Western - derived pop styles , whether coexisting with or marginalizing distinctively local genres , have spread throughout the world and have come to constitute stylistic common denominators in global commercial music cultures '' . Some non-Western countries , such as Japan , have developed a thriving pop music industry , most of which is devoted to Western - style pop . Japan has for several years produced a greater quantity of music than everywhere except the USA . The spread of Western - style pop music has been interpreted variously as representing processes of Americanization , homogenization , modernization , creative appropriation , cultural imperialism , or a more general process of globalization . In Korea , pop music 's influence has led to the birth of boy bands and girl groups which have gained overseas renown through both their music and aesthetics . Korean co-ed groups ( mixed gender groups ) have not been as successful . See also ( edit ) Music portal Honorific nicknames in popular music Origins of rock and roll Popular music pedagogy List of popular music genres History of music Public domain music Internet Archive References ( edit ) Jump up ^ Traditional Pop , Allmusic.com . Retrieved 25 August 2016 ^ Jump up to : R. Middleton , et al. , `` Pop '' , Grove music online , retrieved 14 March 2010 . ( subscription required ) ^ Jump up to : Gilliland , John ( 1969 ) . `` Show 1 - Play A Simple Melody : Pete Seeger on the origins of pop music '' ( audio ) . Pop Chronicles . University of North Texas Libraries . ^ Jump up to : S. Frith , W. Straw , and J. Street , eds , The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ) , ISBN 0 - 521 - 55660 - 0 , pp. 95 -- 105 . Jump up ^ D. Hatch and S. Millward , From Blues to Rock : an Analytical History of Pop Music ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 1987 ) , ISBN 0 - 7190 - 1489 - 1 , p. 1 . Jump up ^ R. 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Jump up ^ Abebe , Nitsuh ( 24 October 2005 ) , `` Twee as Fuck : The Story of Indie Pop '' , Pitchfork Media , archived from the original on 24 February 2011 ^ Jump up to : Christgau , Robert ( 2014 ) . `` Anti-Rockism's Hall of Fame '' . The Barnes & Noble Review . Retrieved August 18 , 2015 . Jump up ^ Joan Serrà , Álvaro Corral , Marián Boguñá , Martín Haro & Josep Ll . Arcos , `` Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music '' , Nature.com , 26 July 2012 . Retrieved 30 March 2016 ^ Jump up to : John Matson , `` Is Pop Music Evolving , or Is It Just Getting Louder ? '' , Scientific American , 26 July 2012 . Retrieved 30 March 2016 Jump up ^ McGee , Alan ( August 20 , 2008 ) . `` Madonna Pop Art '' . The Guardian . Retrieved April 17 , 2013 . ^ Jump up to : D. Buckley , `` Pop '' `` II . Implications of technology '' , Grove Music Online , retrieved 15 March 2010 . Jump up ^ Edmondson , Jacqueline , ed. ( 2013 ) . 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SBS PopAsia Further reading ( edit ) This `` further reading '' section may contain inappropriate and / or excessive suggestions . Please ensure that only a reasonable number of balanced , topical , reliable , and notable further reading suggestions are given . Consider utilising appropriate texts as inline sources or creating a separate bibliography article . ( December 2016 ) Adorno , Theodor W. , ( 1942 ) `` On Popular Music '' , Institute of Social Research . Bell , John L. , ( 2000 ) The Singing Thing : A Case for Congregational Song , GIA Publications , ISBN 1 - 57999 - 100 - 9 Bindas , Kenneth J. , ( 1992 ) America 's Musical Pulse : Popular Music in Twentieth - Century Society , Praeger . Clarke , Donald , ( 1995 ) The Rise and Fall of Popular Music , St Martin 's Press . https://web.archive.org/web/20071231045026/http://www.musicweb.uk.net/RiseandFall/index.htm Dolfsma , Wilfred , ( 1999 ) Valuing Pop Music : Institutions , Values and Economics , Eburon . Dolfsma , Wilfred , ( 2004 ) Institutional Economics and the Formation of Preferences : The Advent of Pop Music , Edward Elgar Publishing . Frith , Simon , Straw , Will , Street , John , eds , ( 2001 ) , The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock , Cambridge University Press , Frith , Simon ( 2004 ) Popular Music : Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies , Routledge . Gillett , Charlie , ( 1970 ) The Sound of the City . The Rise of Rock and Roll , Outerbridge & Dienstfrey . Hatch , David and Stephen Millward , ( 1987 ) , From Blues to Rock : an Analytical History of Pop Music , Manchester University Press , ISBN 0 - 7190 - 1489 - 1 Johnson , Julian , ( 2002 ) Who Needs Classical Music ? : Cultural Choice and Musical Value , Oxford University Press , ISBN 0 - 19 - 514681 - 6 . Kent , Jeff , ( 1983 ) The Rise and Fall of Rock , Witan Books , ISBN 0 - 9508981 - 0 - 4 . Lonergan , David F. , ( 2004 ) Hit Records , 1950 -- 1975 , Scarecrow Press , ISBN 0 - 8108 - 5129 - 6 . Maultsby , Portia K. , ( 7907 ) Intra - and International Identities in American Popular Music , Trading Culture . Middleton , Richard , ( 1990 ) Studying Popular Music , Open University Press . Negus , Bob , ( 1999 ) Music Genres and Corporate Cultures , Routledge , ISBN 0 - 415 - 17399 - X . Pleasants , Henry ( 1969 ) Serious Music and All That Jazz , Simon & Schuster . Roxon , Lillian , ( 1969 ) Rock Encyclopedia , Grosset & Dunlap . Shuker , Roy , ( 2002 ) Popular Music : The Key Concepts , Routledge , ( 2nd edn . ) ISBN 0 - 415 - 28425 - 2 . Starr , Larry & Waterman , Christopher , ( 2002 ) American Popular Music : From Minstrelsy to MTV , Oxford University Press . Watkins , S. Craig , ( 2005 ) Hip Hop Matters : Politics , Pop Culture , and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement , Beacon Press , ISBN 0 - 8070 - 0982 - 2 . External links ( edit ) Wikiquote has quotations related to : Pop music Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pop music . The Consumption of Music and the Expression of Values : A Social Economic Explanation for the Advent of Pop Music , Wilfred Dolfsma , American Journal of Economics and Sociology , October 1999 . 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Life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness - wikipedia Life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness Jump to : navigation , search This article is about a famous phrase . For other uses , see The Pursuit of Happiness . Office for Emergency Management . Office of War Information war poster 1941 -- 1945 `` Life , Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness '' is a well - known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence . The phrase gives three examples of the `` unalienable rights '' which the Declaration says have been given to all human beings by their Creator , and which governments are created to protect . Contents ( hide ) 1 Origin and phrasing 1.1 Meaning of `` happiness '' 1.2 Lockean roots hypothesis 1.3 Virginia Declaration of Rights 1.4 Alternative hypotheses 2 Comparable mottos worldwide 3 References Origin and phrasing ( edit ) The United States Declaration of Independence was drafted by Thomas Jefferson , and then edited by the Committee of Five , which consisted of Jefferson , John Adams , Benjamin Franklin , Roger Sherman , and Robert Livingston . It was then further edited and adopted by the Committee of the Whole of the Second Continental Congress on July 4 , 1776 . The second paragraph of the first article in the Declaration of Independence contains the phrase `` Life , Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness '' . Jefferson 's `` original Rough draught '' is on exhibit in the Library of Congress . This version was used by Julian Boyd to create a transcript of Jefferson 's draft , which reads : We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable ; that all men are created equal & independent , that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable , among which are the preservation of life , & liberty , & the pursuit of happiness ; ... The Committee of Five edited Jefferson 's draft . Their version survived further edits by the whole Congress intact , and reads : We hold these truths to be self - evident , that all men are created equal , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights , that among these are Life , Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness . -- -- A number of possible sources or inspirations for Jefferson 's use of the phrase in the Declaration of Independence have been identified , although scholars debate the extent to which any one of them actually influenced Jefferson . Jefferson declared himself an Epicurean during his lifetime : this is a philosophical doctrine that teaches the pursuit of happiness and proposes autarchy , which translates as self - rule , self - sufficiency or freedom . The greatest disagreement comes between those who suggest the phrase was drawn from John Locke and those who identify some other source . Meaning of `` happiness '' ( edit ) There is debate about what the word `` happiness '' may have meant in 1776 . Current usage focuses on pleasant , positive emotions and having needs satisfied , whereas in 1776 the common meaning may have been `` prosperity , thriving , wellbeing '' . Lockean roots hypothesis ( edit ) In 1689 , Locke argued in his Two Treatises of Government that political society existed for the sake of protecting `` property '' , which he defined as a person 's `` life , liberty , and estate '' . In A Letter Concerning Toleration , he wrote that the magistrate 's power was limited to preserving a person 's `` civil interest '' , which he described as `` life , liberty , health , and indolency of body ; and the possession of outward things '' . He declared in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding that `` the highest perfection of intellectual nature lies in a careful and constant pursuit of true and solid happiness '' . According to those scholars who saw the root of Jefferson 's thought in Locke 's doctrine , Jefferson replaced `` estate '' with `` the pursuit of happiness '' , although this does not mean that Jefferson meant the `` pursuit of happiness '' to refer primarily or exclusively to property . Under such an assumption , the Declaration of Independence would declare that government existed primarily for the reasons Locke gave , and some have extended that line of thinking to support a conception of limited government . Virginia Declaration of rights ( edit ) The first and second article of the Virginia Declaration of Rights , written by George Mason and adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12 , 1776 , speaks of happiness in the context of recognizably Lockean rights and is paradigmatic of the way in which `` the fundamental natural rights of mankind '' were expressed at the time . That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights , of which , when they enter into a state of society , they can not , by any compact , deprive or divest their posterity ; namely , the enjoyment of life and liberty , with the means of acquiring and possessing property , and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety . -- Virginia Declaration of Rights Benjamin Franklin was in agreement with Thomas Jefferson in downplaying protection of `` property '' as a goal of government . It is noted that Franklin found property to be a `` creature of society '' and thus , he believed that it should be taxed as a way to finance civil society . Alternative hypotheses ( edit ) In 1628 , Sir Edward Coke wrote in The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England , his commentary on Thomas de Littleton , that `` It is commonly said that three things be favoured in Law , Life , Liberty , Dower . '' At common law , dower was closely guarded as a means by which the widow and orphan of a deceased landowner could keep their real property . Garry Wills has argued that Jefferson did not take the phrase from Locke and that it was indeed meant to be a standard by which governments should be judged . Wills suggests Adam Ferguson as a good guide to what Jefferson had in mind : If , in reality , courage and a heart devoted to the good of mankind are the constituents of human felicity , the kindness which is done infers a happiness in the person from whom it proceeds , not in him on whom it is bestowed ; and the greatest good which men possessed of fortitude and generosity can procure to their fellow creatures is a participation of this happy character . If this be the good of the individual , it is likewise that of mankind ; and virtue no longer imposes a task by which we are obliged to bestow upon others that good from which we ourselves refrain ; but supposes , in the highest degree , as possessed by ourselves , that state of felicity which we are required to promote in the world . -- Adam Ferguson , An Essay on the History of Civil Society The 17th - century cleric and philosopher Richard Cumberland wrote that promoting the well - being of our fellow humans is essential to the `` pursuit of our own happiness '' . Locke never associated natural rights with happiness , but his philosophical opponent Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz made such an association in the introduction to his Codex Iuris Gentium . William Wollaston 's The Religion of Nature Delineated describes the `` truest definition '' of `` natural religion '' as being `` The pursuit of happiness by the practice of reason and truth '' . An English translation of Jean - Jacques Burlamaqui 's Principles of Natural and Politic Law prepared in 1763 extolled the `` noble pursuit '' of `` true and solid happiness '' in the opening chapter discussing natural rights . Historian Jack Rakove posits Burlamaqui as the inspiration for Jefferson 's phrase . Comparable mottos worldwide ( edit ) Other tripartite mottos include `` liberté , égalité , fraternité '' ( liberty , equality , fraternity ) in France ; `` Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit '' ( unity , justice and liberty ) in Germany and `` peace , order , and good government '' in Canada . It is also similar to a line in the Canadian Charter of Rights : `` life , liberty , security of the person '' ( this line was also in the older Canadian Bill of rights , which added `` enjoyment of property '' to the list ) . The phrase can also be found in Chapter III , Article 13 of the 1947 Constitution of Japan , and in President Ho Chi Minh 's 1945 declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam . An alternative phrase `` life , liberty , and property '' , is found in the Declaration of Colonial Rights , a resolution of the First Continental Congress . The Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution declare that governments can not deprive any person of `` life , liberty , or property '' without due process of law . Also , Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads , `` Everyone has the right to life , liberty , and security of person '' . References ( edit ) Jump up ^ `` The Declaration of Independence : Rough Draft '' . USHistory.org . Archived from the original on March 30 , 2014 . Retrieved May 18 , 2014 . 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The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England . London : Adam Islip . Section 193 . OCLC 84760833 . Jump up ^ Whitehead , Edward Jenkins ( 1922 ) . The Law of Real Property in Illinois . 1 . Chicago : Burdette J. Smith & Company . p. 178 . OCLC 60731472 . Jump up ^ Wills , Gary ( 2002 ) ( 1978 ) . Inventing America : Jefferson 's Declaration of Independence . New York , NY : Mariner Books . ISBN 978 - 0 - 618 - 25776 - 8 . Jump up ^ Ferguson , Adam ( 1995 ) ( 1767 ) . Oz - Salzberger , Fania , ed . An Essay on the History of Civil Society . Cambridge , NY : Cambridge University Press . pp. 99 -- 100 . ISBN 052144215X . Jump up ^ Cumberland , Richard ( 2005 ) ( 1727 ) . A Treatise of the Laws of Nature . Indianapolis , IN : Liberty Fund . pp. 523 -- 24 . ISBN 0865974721 . Jump up ^ Leibniz , Gottfried Wilhelm ( 1988 ) . Riley , Patrick , ed . Leibniz : Political Writings ( 2nd ed . ) . Cambridge , NY : Cambridge University Press . p. 171 . ISBN 0521353807 . Jump up ^ Wollaston , William ( 1759 ) ( 1722 ) . The Religion of Nature Delineated ( 8th ed . ) . London : Samuel Palmer . p. 90 . OCLC 2200588 . Jump up ^ Burlamaqui , Jean - Jacques ( 2006 ) ( 1747 ) . The Principles of Natural and Politic Law . Indianapolis , IN : Liberty Fund . p. 31 . ISBN 0865974969 . Jump up ^ Rakove , Jack N. ( 2010 ) . Revolutionaries : A New History of the Invention of America . Boston , MA : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . p. 300 . ISBN 0618267468 ... arguably owed more to Jefferson 's reading of the Swiss jurist Jean - Jacques Burlamaqui than it did to his manifest debt to John Locke . Jump up ^ Dyck , Perry Rand ( 2000 ) . Canadian Politics : Critical Approaches ( 3rd ed . ) . Scarborough , ON : Nelson Thomson Learning . ISBN 978 - 0 - 17 - 616792 - 9 . 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Question: is the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness in the constitution

Chapter III, Article 13 of the 1947 Constitution of Japan