[196][197] House Memorial No. Near the end of the 19th century two more states, Wyoming (1890) and Utah (1896), included equal rights provisions in their constitutions. Since formulation of the "three-state strategy" for ratification in 1994, ERA bills have been introduced in subsequent years in one or more legislative sessions in ten of the unratified states (Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, and Virginia). And they incorrectly posit that Congress has complete, plenary authority over the entire constitutional amendment process. [citation needed] The decision caused some union Democrats and social conservatives to leave the organization and form the Women's Equity Action League (within a few years WEAL also endorsed the ERA), but the move to support the amendment benefited NOW, bolstering its membership. Because no additional state legislatures ratified the ERA between March 22, 1979, and June 30, 1982, the validity of that disputed extension was rendered academic. The Texas B&PW campaigned before the ratification election in November 1972. All rights reserved. Neither case involved a similar kind of amendment: Dillon involved an amendment with a ratification deadline in its text, while Coleman involved an amendment with no ratification deadline at all. Professor Walter Dellinger, for example, writes that Article V requires no additional action by Congress or by anyone else after ratification by the final state. Does it matter how the Equal Rights Amendment is worded? The number of states ratifying it declined rapidly, from 30 in the first two years to only five in the next four years. ", "Letter to Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller, Chairman of the National Woman's Party", "Research Guides: American Women: Topical Essays: The Long Road to Equality: What Women Won from the ERA Ratification Effort", "News Today: A History of the Poor People's Campaign in Real Time", "A Brief History of the Equal Rights Amendment | ERA University", "GRIFFITHS, Martha Wright | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives", "TO PASS H.J. The 1972 ERA, therefore, can no longer be ratified because it no longer exists. [1] The first version of an ERA was written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman and introduced in Congress in December 1923.[2][3][4]. To sneak it into the Constitution through this illegal process would undermine the very basis for our constitutional order. In 1824, the states received an amendment giving Congress authority to prohibit child labor; 28 states ratified it by 1937. 39)which is worded with slight differences from Representative Baldwin's (H.J. The joint stipulation incorporated the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel's opinion; stated that the Archivist would not certify the adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment and stated that if the Department of Justice ever concludes that the 1972 ERA Resolution is still pending and that the Archivist therefore has authority to certify the ERA's adoption the Archivist will make no certification concerning ratification of the ERA until at least 45 days following the announcement of the Department of Justice's conclusion, absent a court order compelling him to do so sooner. Congress had originally set a ratification deadline of March 22, 1979, for the state legislatures to consider the ERA. [39] Peterson referred to the National Woman's Party members, most of them veteran suffragists and preferred the "specific bills for specific ills" approach to equal rights. [20], As a result, in the 1940s, ERA opponents proposed an alternative, which provided that "no distinctions on the basis of sex shall be made except such as are reasonably justified by differences in physical structure, biological differences, or social function." First, ERA advocates fail to distinguish between constitutional amendments, like the Madison Amendment, proposed without a ratification deadline and those, like the 1972 ERA, proposed with such a deadline. 10), Kentucky (March 17, 1978: House [Joint] Resolution No. On September 25, 1921, the National Womans Party (NWP) announced its plan to seek ratification of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing equal rights for women and men. Eleanor Roosevelt and most New Dealers also opposed the ERA. Why did the Equal Rights Amendment of 1972 fail? [73], Among those rejecting Congress's claim to even hold authority to extend a previously established ratification deadline, the South Dakota Legislature adopted Senate Joint Resolution No. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall stated, "The people had seven years to consider the ERA, and they rejected it. On January 25, 1982, however, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the lower court's decision. SENATE AND HOUSE TO GET AMENDMENT; A Proposed Constitutional Change To Be Introduced On October 1", "Dr. Frances Dickinson women's equal rights", "The Proposed Equal Rights Amendment: Contemporary Ratification Issues", "Conversations with Alice Paul: Woman Suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment", "What's in a Name? Click here to contact us for media inquiries, and please donate here to support our continued expansion. Between 1972 and 1982, ERA supporters held rallies, petitioned, picketed, went on hunger strikes, and performed acts of civil disobedience. . [149] Schlafly said passage of the amendment would threaten Social Security benefits for housewives. In 1972, it seemed ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment was all but a sure thing. WHEREAS, the ERA guarantees "[e]quality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."; and. They do so because, in Dillon, the Supreme Court said that a proposed constitutional amendment should be ratified within a sufficiently contemporaneous period. 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And, in a historic vote to become the 38th state to ratify, the state of Virginia voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment on January 15, 2020. [72], On February 11, 2022, the West Virginia Senate passed a resolution rescinding West Virginia's ratification of the ERA but this resolution has not yet been adopted by the West Virginia House. For these reasons, the U.S. Department of Justices Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concluded that Dillons discussionwas merely a dictum.REF, While the Courts comment in Dillon about ratification being sufficiently contemporaneous is irrelevant because, as dictum, it is not legal binding precedent, Colemans treatment of this issue is irrelevant for a different reason. By 1977, the legislatures of 35 states had approved the amendment. On August 22, 1978, Congress proposed and sent to the states an amendment that would give the District of Columbia the same Senate and House representation that states have. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens, regardless of sex. For women's rights advocates, the ERA was the next logical step following the successful campaign to win access to the ballot through the adoption of the 19th Amendment. Drawing a specific parallel with the legislative process can further clarify this point. States may still ratify the 1972 ERA only if it remains pending before the states. 208), by which the 92nd Congress proposed the amendment to the states, was prefaced by the following resolving clause: 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, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission by the Congress: [emphasis added], As the joint resolution was passed on March 22, 1972, this effectively set March 22, 1979 as the deadline for the amendment to be ratified by the requisite number of states. [153] The most prominent opponent of the ERA was Schlafly. First proposed by the. Meanwhile, state-level equivalents abound. West Virginia ratified the amendment in April 1972, the same year that Congress sent it to the states. On March 22, 2017, 45 years to the day after Congress passed the ERA, Nevada became the 36th state to ratify it. From 1913-1917, the fair also featured a Suffrage Day when local suffragists would gather and promote womens voting rights. In 1969, newly elected representative Shirley Chisholm of New York gave her famous speech "Equal Rights for Women" on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. That strategy does not involve Congress adjusting, amending, or extending that ratification deadline, but urges states to ignore it altogether. Since the Constitution was ratified in June 1788, nearly 12,000 amendments have been introduced in Congress,REF 33 have been proposed,REF and 27 have been ratified. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) passed Congress in 1972 and was quickly ratified by 35 of the 38 states needed for it to become part of the Constitution. As of January 2020, the bill had 224 co-sponsors. [76], On March 19, 2021, North Dakota state lawmakers adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution No. The ELRA gained passage in the Senate, but House members voted it down by a slim margin. U.S. Congress | States can continue to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) that Congress proposed in 1972 only if it is still pending before the states. For example, a question of equality before the law; we are interested in the Equal Rights Amendment." Because thirty-eight states failed to ratify the amendment by March 31, 1979 the South Dakota Legislature rescinded its ratification of the ERA. A majority of states ratified the proposed constitutional amendment within a year. States can continue to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) that Congress proposed in 1972 only if it is still pending before the states. [75] Constitution Annotated notes that "[f]our states had rescinded their ratifications [of the ERA] and a fifth had declared that its ratification would be void unless the amendment was ratified within the original time limit", with a footnote identifying South Dakota as that "fifth" state. In the meantime, the ERA ratification movement continued with the resolution being introduced in 10 state legislatures. [202] The bill expired without Senate action. [50], Griffiths reintroduced the ERA, and achieved success on Capitol Hill with her H.J.Res. [118] 638, by Representative Elizabeth Holtzman of New York (House: August; Senate: October 6; signing of the President: October 20), which purported to extend the ERA's ratification deadline to June 30, 1982. It's Only Been 96 Years", "The Equal Rights Amendment: 111th Congress", "Bill Summary & Status 113th Congress (20132014) H.J. [23] Opponents of the amendment, such as the Women's Joint Congressional Committee, believed that the loss of these benefits to women would not be worth the supposed gain to them in equality. The authors of the 1997 analysis behind the three-state strategy, for example, assert that Congress promulgat[ed] the Madison Amendment in 1992REF and that congressional promulgation of an amendment is not essential for an amendment to become effective.REF Rather, they write, the date of the final state ratification is the determinative point of the amendment process and therefore, subsequent congressional promulgation is a mere formality.REF. America' 'hopelessly wrong.' The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United Statesincluding former enslaved peopleand guaranteed all citizens "equal protection of the laws." The lieutenant governor of Kentucky, Thelma Stovall, who was acting as governor in the governor's absence, vetoed the rescinding resolution. . Congress has no role in determining when a proposed amendment has been ratified, and the states cannot ratify an amendment after its deadline has passed. the Twenty-seventh amendment. Similarly, neither House nor Senate debates on the twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, or twenty-sixth amendments observed the fact that the seven-year limitation had shifted to the resolving clause.REF Congress saw no significance whatsoever in the location of a ratification deadline. [38] When Kennedy was elected, he made Esther Peterson the highest-ranking woman in his administration as an assistant secretary of labor. Meanwhile, Congress passed the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act and a federal equal rights amendment, the latter of which was ratified by the Texas legislature in a special session in March 1972. It has, for example, imposed a ratification deadline for seven of the amendments that today are part of the Constitution and for the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment. 7 was officially received by the U.S. Senate on January 6, 2014, was designated as "POM-175", was referred to the Senate's Committee on the Judiciary, and was published verbatim in the Congressional Record at page S24. [25] The opposition to the ERA was led by Mary Anderson and the Women's Bureau beginning in 1923. 7 asking that the congressionally imposed deadline for ERA ratification be removed. "[163] Opposition to the amendment was particularly high among religious conservatives, who argued that the amendment would guarantee universal abortion rights and the right for homosexual couples to marry. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. The caucus stated that the Texas legislature had eliminated or was preparing to change most sex-specific language in Texas statutes, but that many state agency regulations had not yet been reviewed. On March 5, 2013, the ERA was reintroduced by Senator Menendez as S.J. In the course of promulgating the 14thAmendment, therefore, Congress determined that both attempted withdrawals of ratifications and previous rejections prior to ratification had no legal validity. When the 98th Congress convened on January 3, 1983, Representative Peter Rodino (DNJ) introduced the ERA as House Joint Resolution 1, which failed later that year when the 278147 House vote fell short of the two-thirds required to send it to the states. When the 115th Congress adjourned, however, bills introduced but not enacted expired. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. On May 30, 2018, Illinois became the 37th state. Hawaii became the first state to ratify the ERA, which it did on the same day the amendment was approved by Congress: The U.S. Senate's vote on H.J.Res. [90] H.J.Res. After 1973, the number of ratifying states slowed to a trickle. [138], Many African-American women have supported the ERA. [161], Many ERA supporters blamed their defeat on special interest forces, especially the insurance industry and conservative organizations, suggesting that they had funded an opposition that subverted the democratic process and the will of the pro-ERA majority. The amendment was finally ratified in the election of November 7, 1972, with 80 percent of voters in favor. On February 8, 2016, the American Bar Associations House of Delegates adopted Resolution 10B, submitted by the New Jersey State Bar, generally supporting ratification of the ERA. The measure provided that equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed or national origin. Since the President has no role in the constitutional amendment process,REF however, a joint resolution proposing an amendment is sent to the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) for publication and transmittal to the governor of each state.REF, States that ratify an amendment send authenticated ratification documents to the OFR which, in turn, notifies the Archivist of the United States when such documents are received from three-fourths of the states. This text became Section 1 of the version passed by Congress in 1972. ", "Equal Rights Amendment: State Provisions", "Indiana Ratifies the ERA With Rosalynn Carter's Aid", "Nevada ratifies Equal Rights Amendment decades past deadline", "Illinois House approves Equal Rights Amendment", "Authentication and Proclamation: Proposing a Constitutional Amendment", "South Dakota and the Equal Rights Amendment". It was quickly rejected by both pro and anti-ERA coalitions. The 1972 Equal Rights Amendment Can No Longer Be RatifiedBecause It No Longer Exists, Second Amendment Libertys Most Essential Safeguard 200 Years Later, President Bidens Questionable Authority To Forgive Student Debt. Ballot measures, Who represents me? Since Congress has taken no action to change the 1972 ERAs ratification deadline, the only way to do so is by ignoring that deadline altogether. "[147] They appealed to married women by stressing that the amendment would invalidate protective laws such as alimony and eliminate the tendency for mothers to obtain custody over their children in divorce cases. Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides for two methods of proposing amendments. The amendment failed to pass. The amendment to the Texas constitution granting women and men equal legal rights resulted from a fifteen-year campaign spearheaded by the Texas Federation of Business and Professional Women. 47) to remove the congressionally imposed deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. After the disputed June 30, 1982, extended deadline had come and gone, the Supreme Court, at the beginning of its new term, on October 4, 1982, in the separate case of NOW v. Idaho, 459 U.S. 809 (1982), vacated the federal district court decision in Idaho v. Freeman,[97] which, in addition to declaring March 22, 1979, as ERA's expiration date, had upheld the validity of state rescissions. [123] On May 3, 2021, the plaintiff states appealed the ruling to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. 208. Protest and opposition for the Equal Rights Amendment raged between 1972 and 1982. W075_029, Feminist Postcard Collection, Archives for Research on Women and Gender. 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