You ever sit and wonder how different things would’ve been had Jefferson went with “Life, Liberty, and Property” instead?

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Yes! He wanted to, but gave into peer pressure.

He did

Pursuit of happiness

In the original trinity proclaimed by John Locke in his Second Treatise on Government, “life, liberty, and property” were the enshrined rights.

Ok you’re right, I think he swapped “pursuit of happiness” as an anti-slavery stance.