Lady Adams

Why John Adams unfairly excluded ladies' suffrage?

See these sentence first please.

-1776 Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, asking him to "remember the ladies" in the new code of laws. Adams replies the men will fight the "despotism of the petticoat."

After one year, In New York,ladies' right to vote was denied.
And..it was only just a beginning.

My questions are..

1.what 'despotism of petticoat' means? Did women do something wrong?Did women dominate man unfairly in the past?Or, John Adams didn't like women(EVen his wife)??

2.Before 1776,Were women's rights superior to men's rights?
(Yet I can not understand why John Adams used that expression)

You might want to look into their biographies. Abigail and John had a positively great relationship and were passionately in love throughout their entire adult lives. His letters, and hers, reflect a relationship of great respect and intellectual stimulation.

I like a great deal of what John Adams did, but he was quite collossally fallible - the Aliens an Sedition Act (almost as ridiculous as Bush's Patriot Act) is a particularly nasty example.

Note that what Adams said was that MEN WOULD FIGHT the despotism of the petticoat. What he was unsubtly expressing here is the fact that politicans pander to their constituencies and are more beholden to self and career-preservation than righteousness. the fact that he phrased his thoughts in this way indicates that he knew he would be doing something quite contradictory to his otherwise excellent ideals concerning universal liberty, but that he felt that he must do it anyway.

Despite the fact that he owned no slaves and that he (privately) and Abigail (publicly) detested slavery, he expressed many similar points concerning this and did not press the issue in favor of retaining slave owners like Jefferson, Washington and Madison on his team.

"Despotism of the petticoat" is simply a somewhat insulting but perhaps ironic or sarcastic reference to what his male constituency would be thinking if women were permitted to vote.

This does not excuse him, or any of the framers for excluding anybody from the vote - just providing perspective.

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