The American people have been trained over the last few decades to expect too little. Universal healthcare & easy access to higher education is what the citizens in a prosperous society should expect and do expect in other countries. It’s part of our “right to pursue happiness.”
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The sentiment is correct, but technically "inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness" is from the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. Does that carry legal weight?
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Replying to @dennis_reichel
No of course it doesn’t carry legal weight. But it’s America’s mission statement, what John Adams called “our first principles.” Our emotional and psychological connection to the Declaration of Independence is almost as important as our legal connection to the constitution.

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And as with other contemporaneous writings, if informs our interpretation of the Constitution.