HILD 2A-B-C Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Direct Democracy, Abigail Adams, Coverture
27 Feb 2018
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Madison didn"t trust people to make good political decisions because they weren"t educated (basically imagine some random person on a twitter feed was able to vote then times that by a lot) Judith sargent murray implies that the all men are created equal ethos from the. Women are equally capable of exercising reason. Women"s inferior status is only because they have been denied educational opportunity against god"s wishes) Women"s souls are equal to men"s (if they don"t agree with this, they"re going. Benjamin rush did support murray"s idea of educating women more but he believed it was only to people able to teach the children as they raise them up. Keep educational purposes within the domestic sphere. I. e. specific languages, literature, poetry, grammar, etc (nothing mathematical or scientific like men) Women needed an education to enable their sons to be good citizens in the republic (an instrument to help out men future generations)
