"I long to hear that you have declared an independancy—and by the way in the new Code of Laws ... I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
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Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams (31 March 1776); L. H. Butterfield (ed.) Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 1 (1963), pp. 369–71
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