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See other U.S. Constitution Articles Title: There's only one way to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution
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Jeff Jacoby
URL Source: https://jeffjacoby.com/26748/there- ... one-way-to-add-an-equal-rights
Published: Feb 14, 2023
Author: Jeff Jacoby
Post Date: 2023-02-14 19:44:52 by Charles_Byrd
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IT WAS a running joke in the early days of NBC's "Saturday Night Live." Chevy Chase, the news anchor for "Weekend Update," would announce the night's top story: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead." Like the late Spanish autocrat, the Equal Rights Amendment is also still dead. Approved by Congress in 1972, it was sent to the states with a seven-year ratification deadline, only to die when the clock ran out in 1979. Just 35 of the required 38 state legislatures had ratified the amendment, so it never became part of the Constitution. Yet some members of Congress now insist that the ERA didn't fail and actually was ratified. Or, to be precise, that it will have been ratified "to all intents and purposes" if Congress simply adopts a joint resolution retroactively cancelling the ERA's deadline. Click for Full Text! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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