 an argument about the question of slavery. And so John Adams, for example, who was instrumental in moving the Declaration forward and in its drafting, didn't think slavery was a good thing. And the decision in the opening of the Declaration to talk about our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, leaving out the property concept was a decision in the direction of those who were against slavery. So the Southerners had been using the property concept, the idea that