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Throughout the history of our world, there have been dozens of revolutionary wars. Although these wars were revolved around different people and different issues; most of them were caused by one group taking away another’s liberties. We see this in the American Revolution which was caused by the British not respecting the colonists’ natural rights. In order to prevent their new nation from following in the footsteps of Britain, they defined liberty as having the ability to make political decisions based on your place in society. By looking at certain historical documents we see the men in the society had the most freedom, while women and slaves were unable to voice their opinions. One of the biggest events to spark the revolt against Britain …show more content…

Once a woman is married, she is considered to be unified with her husband. In William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, it states that “Upon this principle, of a union of person in husband and wife, depends almost all the legal rights, duties, and disabilities, that either of them acquire by the marriage.” This is saying that once a man and woman get married, they are unified by law and all of their rights are given to the husband. In the late 18th century, Abigail Adams, John Adams wife, sends a letter asking her husband to fight for women’s rights. She believed that men shouldn’t be given unlimited power over their wives; furthermore, she argues that women will start to fight back about “any laws in which [they] have no voice or representation” (Document 10). Abigail is asking John to fight for what the colonists were fighting for during the American Revolution. Although the colonists were fighting for fair representation, John Adams immediately shuts Abigail down saying, “we know better than to repeal our masculine systems” (Document 11). John Adams shutting down Abigail’s requests shows that the men controlled the political advancements in society and they were not planning to get rid of any of that power. Therefore, the women in this nation were stripped of their abilities to have a political

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