Abigail Adams uses the ideas of the patriots to support her cause by claiming that women have the right to rebel if they do not have a voice in government. In her letter, she emphasizes that women will not be bound by laws that do not represent them, paralleling the patriots' justification for rebellion against British rule.
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. . . I long to hear that you have declared an independency—and by
the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary
for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be
more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. . . . If
particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are
determined to foment [incite; instigate] a Rebellion, and will not hold
ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or
Representation. . . .
—Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams
How does Abigail Adams use the ideas of the patriots to support her
cause?
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by claiming that women have the right to rebel if they do not have a
voice in government
by insisting that history has always been unfair to women
by comparing the existing British laws with the laws that the patriots
feel need to be established
by declaring women to be independent from and having the same
rights as men
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