of Locke's words reflect the Enlightenment thinking that many historians ascribe to the "Founding Fathers" of this country. He changed the words from "property" to "pursuit of happiness" reflecting a certain tension between his and Locke's notions of property. In the United States slavery was a reality of which Jefferson was intimately aware. His leisure time to read such things as Locke resulted from the work of his slaves. However as a
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