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 favorable 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 What is the author’s main argument in this passage? Social positions should continue to be inherited. Greater rights for women should be secured. The system of primogeniture should be abandoned. The practice of arranged marriages should be rejected.