I long to hear that you have declared an independency-and by the way in the new
Code of Laws which I suppose t will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would
Remember the Lades, and be more generous and favorable to them than your
acess
Do not put such unted power in the hands of the Husbands Rementer
all Men would be tyrants they could I particular care and attention is not paid to the
Lates are determined so foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any
Laws in which we have no voce, or Representation
That your Sex are Naturally Tyranicals a Truth so thoroughly established as to
no depute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of
master for the more tender and endearing one of friend
passage 2
As to Declarations of independency, be patient Read our Privateering Laws, and our
Commercial Laws What signes a Word
As to your extraordinary Code of Laws, I canner but laugh We have been told that our
Suggle has loosened the bands of Government gverywhere That Children and
Apprentices were disobedent-hat schools and deleges were grown turbu
your was the first indiation that another Tribe more numerous and power than
at the were grown discontented. This is rather too coarse a Compliment but you are
so saucy, I won
Depend on & We know better than to repeal our Masculine systems. Although they
are in Force, you know they are le more than Theory. We dare not exert our Power
Laade We are obliged to go far, and sonly, and in Practice you know We are
begin to thank the Mistry as deep as they are wicked Aher sing up
(others) at last they have sted i to demand new Privileges and threaten to rebel
in their letters to one another, how do Abigal Adams and John Adams address the idea of a new Code of Lawendy?
A.Abigal Adams was that tyranny and rebelion will result if the new Code of Laws leaves women without representation Whereas, John Adams indicans that
men will not share power with women and then blames the Minery tor giving women the dea to rebel
B. Abigal Adams requests that the new Code of Laws emember the Lades" since al men are tyrants Whereas, John Adams Ind
Laws amusing and then states that men will event their power to avoid sharing control with women of a new Code of
C.Abgal Adams conveys her concem that if a new Code of Laws does not include representation for wone, then men will de t
Whereas, John Adams Abigal to remain patent and avoid rebellion while men work to establish a new system
D. Abgal Adams expresses her vision for an independent nation and a new Code of Laws, which include equal representation for women Whereas, John
Adans describes widespread deobedience as a result of the new Code of Laws and states that men must be the ones to establish law.
