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Why did Abigail Adams not attend the Constitutional Convention?
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11/02/2009
Abigail Adams did not attend because she was not invited to attend. The MEN that did attend played a significant role in the revolutionary war, war for Independence, and women were still viewed at incompetent to do what men did.
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