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Read the following passage and answer the question.

He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being . . . In . . . marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master . . .

What inferences, or conclusions can be drawn regarding the typical husband and wife relationship in 1848?

Women secretly controlled their husbands.
Women had to obey their husbands even if they were wrong.
Men were afraid of their wives.
Men and women rarely married.

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women had to obey husband

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women had to obey their husbands even is they were wrong
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