text:  But much as _our sex_ are obliged to you in general for your proposal I have one material objection against it; for I think you have carried the point a little too far by excluding _all males_ from the enjoyment of any office dignity or employment; for as they have long engrossed the public administration of the government to themselves (a few women only excepted ) I am apprehensive that they will be loth to part with it and that if they give us power for _seven years_ it will be very difficult to get it out of our hands again