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To: forest
Jefferson didn't change "property" to "pursuit of happiness", Ben Franklin did.
3 posted on 02/22/2003 10:52:37 AM PST by freedomcrusader
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Jefferson didn't change "property" to "pursuit of happiness", Ben Franklin did.

You beat me to it. Jefferson was so incensed by the changes the committees implemented, that when he wrote copies of the final version of the DoI, he wrote his original draft, with all the additions/corrections included.

8 posted on 02/22/2003 12:10:39 PM PST by 4CJ (Be nice to liberals, medicate them to the point of unconsciousness.)
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