... women's realities greatly." Women now, more than ever, saw themselves as a useful part of their society because they had played such important roles in the war. The idea of the republican mother stemmed from the revolution, "a woman's patriotic duty to educate her sons to be moral and virtuous citizens linked her to the state and gave her some degree of power ... not just serve as useful within the domestic boundaries. Whether intentional or not, this became a kind of propaganda to gain more access to education. In the 1780's the idea of republican motherhood stimulated a debate on wome...

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The First Ladies in Female Spheres Massachusetts-born Abigail Smith inherited New England's potent traditions and continued to personify republican values until her death in 1818. She was a part of a prestigious, "major family network of Boston's South Shore"(Akers 3) and her father was a Congregational minister in a society that held its ... the city that resembled wilderness rather than the new capital. After her death in 1818, she stands remembered as both a patriot and First Lady as well as an embodiment of a republican mother who gave birth to a future President. Mary Todd, like Abigail...

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... expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our National character." - Grover Cleveland On August 3rd, 2000, in his Acceptance speech , at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, President George W. Bush told a touching story of Mary Jo Copeland, "whose ministry called "Sharing and Caring Hands" serves 1,000 meals a week in Minneapolis, Minnesota", ... with federal grants - according to Cal Thomas , out of 500 grant applicants, only 25 received the government's blessing. A future Democratic administration might deny grants to orga...

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