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In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire… — Abigail Adams

Letter

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 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.

Abigail Adams
1776
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Current citation
Adams, Abigail. My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor. Belknap Press, 2010.
Original citation
Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Adams. 31 Mar. 1776.

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