That would have been more correct. It is fascinating to think that as he wrote the Declaration, his ideas were forming and his view was changing. That one changed word says so much about how our country started on it's path to freedom.
Much of the Declaration of Independence is based on Geo. Mason’s Virginia Declaration of Rights. Interesting fellow, Mason. He didn’t sign the Constitution, tho he helped in its drafting, because it didn’t do enough in his opinion to reign in the federal govt.
I try desperately hard to put myself into the times of the founding, how people thought, the customs and forms of government they were used to and had studied. Their acts really were revolutionary in the strictest sense of the word. Amazing what they did, and yet we take it all for granted. Tho that seems to be coming to a regrettable end.