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When historians are asked, “who are the foremost women in America’s history?” One name always appears in the top five, and for many, she is number one: Abigail Adams.
Abigail Adams, nee Smith, grew up in a practical, prominent New England family and educated herself to a level wherethrough, she later self-created a revolutionary, intellectual salon in America. She traded wits with all the major contemporaries of her day; her preferred philosophical counterpoise was Thomas Jefferson. Her husband, John Adams, looked to Abigail as his first advisor by preference, not by marriage.
John Adams was the Revolutionary War’s chief of personnel, being so, Abigail’s advice was looked for when the commission was given by the Continental Congress, for George Washington to be General of the Continental Armies. Her input was sought and followed, when her beloved antagonist, Thomas Jefferson, was charged by the Congress to write the Declaration of Independence. Doubtless, she had to do with Henry Knox being named Colonel of Artillery, for his daring raid on Fort Ticonderoga and the capture of its munitions.
Abigail Adams was a witness of the Battle of Bunker Hill and the burning of Charlestown. Her insider accounts of our Revolution later made her America’s first historian.
There is more. Abigail was by John Adams’ side in heart and mind, when Mr. Adams wrote his “Thoughts on Government.” Abigail had a lot to do with the editing; after all, she was considered the superior writer in the family. “Thoughts on Government” became the young nation’s guidebook for free government, on which the original 13 states based their distinct constitutions. Later, this work’s conception of a representative assembly as the cornerstone of American freedom, formed much of the First Article of our Constitution.
But there’s more. Abigal and John had six children. At home, while John was at the office, Abigail ran the family, the family farm, and the family’s investments, from which she personally helped fund the Revolution. She personally oversaw her children’s education, both civil and spiritual, and demanded that the study of virtue was the most critical work of the country.
The fulfillment of all these roles in American society comprised the unique original powers of American womanhood. It was America’s women who managed the family and family property and the education system, both at the local school and in the local church. And very often, during the revolution, the Lady of the house was also the Lady who ran the family business, while the father and husband was on the battlefield.
When therefore, you read the Constitution’s 9th Amendment which very deliberately specifies: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others (rights) retained by the people. And the 10 Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” You are reading of the powers that our Constitution was supposed to guarantee were left to women and to their families. It is the original American power that the family, headed by its parents, are the governors of their children, and the family alone determines how they are raised. Which brings us to today.
The Department of Education is an agency of our Administrative State. That State ensures that every one of 17,600 school districts and 5,000 post-secondary institutions take some form of payment from the federal government, after all, be generous! It is not generosity.
Any funding, even a single dollar, whether given to a school directly or indirectly, demands that those schools are directly subject to the Department of Education’s rules, such as Title IX.
Title IX as passed by the people’s representatives, gathered in assembly, and signed into law on June 23, 1972, declares that: “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, or be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Despite the necessity of agencies having to make rules that are in keeping with the laws that only Congress can pass, The Department of Education, has twisted the language of the Title IX law, to create a rule, that turns the protections of the law utterly upside down. The Department has expanded the prohibition to include discrimination based on “sex stereotypes, sex-related characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation and gender-identity.”
The new rule functionally opens all education-based private areas, which protect women and girls in our society, and opens them to persons who are deeply confused psychologically and morally. It opens all of women’s and girl’s sports activities and locker rooms to males. It opens all classrooms and dorms and their bathrooms, previously assigned to women and girls, to males.
I wonder what Abigail Adams would have said about this… I don’t have to wonder, Abigail wrote this to her husband at the Continental Congress: “Remember the Ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors… Remember, all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies, we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
Ladies, it’s time that you exert your power…
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Author: Richard Lyons
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