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The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
Whether once it has prescribed a ratification period Congress may extend the period without necessitating action by already-ratified States embroiled Congress, the states, and the courts in argument with respect to the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (Sent to the states on March 22, 1972, with a seven-year ratification time limit attached).
Constitutionof the United States. The Twenty-seventh Amendment ( Amendment XXVII, also known as the Congressional Compensation Act of 1789 [1]) to the United States Constitution states that any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress may take effect only after the next election of the House of Representatives has occurred.
The decision from New York’s Court of Appeals affirms a June decision allowing the amendment to be brought to voters for ratification, after an upstate New York judge threw it off the ballot in ...
The Equal Rights Amendment states, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” It has met every hurdle to become ...
The first ten amendments were adopted and ratified simultaneously and are known collectively as the Bill of Rights. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments are collectively known as the Reconstruction Amendments. Six amendments adopted by Congress and sent to the states have not been ratified by the required number of states.
Equal Rights Amendment and Utah. From the 1960s through the 1980s, proponents of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) were seeking ratification in each state throughout the United States. Although the Senate approved an unamended version on March 22, 1972, attempts at ratification of the amendment in the state of Utah repeatedly failed. [1]
The clock had run out on the Equal Rights Amendment. Again. The end of an ERA. ... The National Archives once dubbed the ERA America's "most popular never-ratified Amendment." Alice Paul, a leader ...