Well said. I would add that Jefferson realized that injecting property into the discussion would bring slavery directly into the debate. His original draft condemned the British for imposing slavery on the colonies; if he added property to his list of rights, he would have undercut his argument.
I wrote a Medium article on this. Jefferson deliberately didn't use "property" since property can be transferred and this is not inalienable
https://link.medium.com/0VKPAHOCZzb
Well said. I would add that Jefferson realized that injecting property into the discussion would bring slavery directly into the debate. His original draft condemned the British for imposing slavery on the colonies; if he added property to his list of rights, he would have undercut his argument.