re: #24 Dr. Shalit

The founding parents - remember Abigail Adams, etc. - through their Males dedicated the Constitution to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Happiness was an 18th century politically correct phrase that otherwise would have been expressed as “Property.”

Source? Otherwise I call bullshit. The eighteenth century had no problems with property. It was a given. (See property requirements for voters in early US history, for instance.) The “property is theft” idea came much later (Proudhon, 1840).