Seeing as the Linux-oriented S/N ratio has
become nearly unmeasurable here (and because I
wonder if I can still get a certain few brittle
old synapses to fire in sequence) I'll remark
that John Locke is very likely disappointed with
some of the wording in the Declaration. When
Jefferson and friends (upon many of whom Locke
was a strong influence) were writing the
Declaration, they balked at directly citing
Locke's formula of rights to "Life, Liberty, and
Property" (was it from The Federalist Papers?)
because, IIRC, they saw that it might prevent
collection of taxes, and (a bit of a reach here)
they also feared that some of the propertyless
might even use such phrasing as grounds for
demanding property from the government.
Bottom line: don't waste too much time
analyzing that "pursuit of happiness" stuff;
it's essentially filler, representing a
"compromise made in committee..."
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