However, she never went so far as to endorse the ERA. One of those, regarding the number of seats in the House of Representatives, was proposed in 1789 and ratified by 11 states, the last in 1792. Finally, ERA advocates offer contradictory conclusions regarding congressional promulgation. Several states crafted and adopted their own equal rights amendments during the 1970s and 1980s, while the ERA was before the states, or afterward. As the seven-year time limit for ratification approached in 1979, Congress and President Jimmy Carter controversially extended the deadline three years. This had the effect of formally proposing the amendment to the states for ratification.REF. A proposed amendment is pending before the states until it is ratified by three-fourths of the states or expires if fewer than that number ratify it by any deadline that Congress has imposed. While the Court addressed only whether courts could adjudicate this narrow issue, ERA advocates attempt to turn it into a plenary power of Congress over the entire constitutional amendment process.REF, ERA advocates incorrectly claim that the Court in Coleman held generally that Congressdetermines whether the amendment has been ratified in a reasonable period of time.REF In fact, the Court distinguished between proposed amendments that, like the 18th Amendment at issue in Dillon, have a ratification deadline and those, like the Child Labor Amendment at issue in Coleman, that do not.REF The Court expressly limited its conclusion to proposed amendments for which the limit has not been fixed in advance.REF By fixing that limit in advance, as it did for the 1972 ERA, Congress has already made its determination about a reasonable ratification period. In five of the six years between 2011 and 2016, the Virginia Senate passed a resolution ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, but the House of Delegates never released a companion bill from committee for a full vote on the House floor. [46], In February 1970, NOW picketed the United States Senate, a subcommittee of which was holding hearings on a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to 18. In 1982, seven female ERA supporters, known as the Grassroots Group of Second Class Citizens, went on a fast and seventeen chained themselves to the entrance of the Illinois Senate chamber. [160], The John Birch Society and its members organized opposition to the ERA in multiple states. Advocates ignore this difference by focusing instead on a supposed distinction between a textual time limitREF that appears in the proposed amendments text and time limits in a proposing clauseREF that appear in the joint resolutions text. 17, 117th Congress, 1st Session", "House passes joint resolution to remove ERA deadline", "S.J.Res.1 - A joint resolution removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal rights amendment", "VoteERA.org Equal Rights Amendment Women's Full Equality", "Equal Rights Amendment now official in the Delaware State Constitution | The Latest from WDEL News", "Does the U.S. Constitution Need an Equal Rights Amendment? First, Representative Robert Andrews (DNJ) began in 1994 to introduce resolutions that would require the House to take any legislative action necessary to verify the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment when the legislatures of an additional three States ratify it.REF, Second, Members of Congress began introducing joint resolutions to repeal the ratification deadline in the 1972 ERA. In the following decades, women marched, protested, lobbied, and even went to jail. They sought a declaratory judgment that the extended ratification deadline was unconstitutional and that ratification rescissions, including by Idaho, were valid. Section 2. If Congress wants to pass an updated version of the ERA, taking into consideration all the changes in the law since 1972, I have no doubt the South Dakota Legislature would debate the merits in a new ratification process. In July 1982, after the 1972 ERAs extended ratification deadline had passed, the Acting Solicitor General prepared a memorandum for the Administrator of General Services explaining why this legal challenge should be dismissedand later asked the Supreme Court to do so. [74], The action on the part of South Dakota lawmakersoccurring 21 days prior to originally agreed-upon deadline of March 22, 1979could be viewed as slightly different from a rescission. Second, these advocates create an artificial distinction between ratification deadlines that appear in the amendments text and those that appear in the joint resolutions proposing clause. [118] First, the Madison Amendments ratification suggests that amendments, such as the ERA, which do not contain a textual time limit, remain valid for state ratification indefinitely.REF This is because time limits in a proposing clause are irrelevantREF or inconsequential.REF Second, Congress has the power to determine the timeliness of the ERA after final state ratificationand can extend, revise or ignore a time limit.REF Third, all previous ratifications of the 1972 ERA remain in effect, and ratification rescissions are invalid.REF As with the Madison Amendment, which remained open for ratification for 203 years, they concluded in 1997, the ERA, after only twenty-five years, remains open for final state ratification.REF. It is the duty of the Attorney General to defend and support our Legislature. The first involves continued introduction of fresh-start proposals,REF new joint resolutions for proposing the ERA and sending it to the states. Not a single additional state ratified the amendment during the deadline extension period, and five states had already rescinded their ratification. [47] Said Betty Friedan of the strike, "All kinds of women's groups all over the country will be using this week on August 26 particularly, to point out those areas in women's life which are still not addressed. 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In order to be added to the Constitution, it needed approval by legislatures in three-fourths (38) of the 50 states. This fictional distinction has no legal or logical basis.REF Third, they posit that if Congress has authority to change a ratification deadline in a proposed constitutional amendment before that deadline passes, it can do so long afterward.REF Two scholars offered this answer: If the first [deadline] extension was like adding an extra quarter to benefit the losing team in a football game, allowing ratification efforts to resumeafter ERAs apparent defeat is like authorizing the losing team to continue a game after the winning team has left the stadium.REF Fourth, ERA advocates incorrectly claim that Congress has plenary authority over the entire constitutional amendment process, when Congress actual authority is limited to proposing amendments and designating their method of state ratification. On June 28, 1919, the Texas legislature voted to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, the first southern state to do so. "[100], In the context of this judicial precedent, nonpartisan counsel to a Nevada state legislative committee concluded in 2017 that "If three more states sent their ratification to the appropriate federal official, it would then be up to Congress to determine whether a sufficient number of states have ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. After 1973, the number of ratifying states slowed to a trickle. The State Bar of Texas entered the controversy after 1965 by promoting a law granting women rights to own and manage property independently from their husbands and another making the spousal duty of support reciprocal. 2 on March 1, 1979. Rodric B. Schoen, "The Texas ERA after the First Decade: Judicial Developments, 19781982," Houston Law Review 20 (October 1983). 638 received less than two-thirds of the vote (a simple majority, not a supermajority) in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; for that reason, ERA supporters deemed it necessary that H.J.Res. The Equal Rights Amendment, passed by Congress in 1972, received the approval of Texas that same year. [140], By 1976, 60% of African-American women and 63% of African-American men were in favor of the ERA, and the legislation was supported by organizations such as the NAACP, National Council of Negro Women, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, National Association of Negro Business, and the National Black Feminist Organization. [102][103], On December 16, 2019, the states of Alabama, Louisiana and South Dakota sued to prevent further ratifying of the Equal Rights Amendment. All precedents concerning state rescissions of ratifications indicate that such actions are not valid and that the constitutional amendment process as described in Article V allows only for ratification. [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." WHEREAS, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first passed by Congress in 1972 and was sent to the states for ratification; and. They conflate whether Congress can change a ratification deadline before and after that deadline expires. This strategy, along with new women legislators' assistance, paid off. By January 1977, 35 states had ratified it and five of those states had rescinded their ratification. [26] The debate also drew from struggles between working class and professional women. 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. In the House of Representatives, Carolyn Maloney (D-New York) has sponsored it since the 105th Congress,[187] most recently in August 2013. "Congress must act now to remove the . [19], In 1943, Alice Paul further revised the amendment to reflect the wording of the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments. The Handbook of Texas Women project has its own dedicated website and resources. [175][10][176], On March 22, 2017, the Nevada Legislature became the first state in 40 years to ratify the ERA. 17) to remove the deadline for ratification was again introduced in both chambers, with bipartisan support. The 1940 Republican Party presidential platform endorsed the ERA, followed by the Democrats four years later.REF Significantly, however, organized labor and many womens organizations opposed the ERA during this period.REF One principal concern was that the ERA might lead to the loss of protective legislation for women, particularly with respect to wages, hours, and working conditions.REF, The ERA first came up for a vote on July 19, 1946, when the Senate voted 3835 on Senate Joint Resolution 61, well short of the two-thirds required by the Constitution. Efforts to alter sex-based inequities in insurance regulations and wages continued at a slow pace during the economic recession of the 1990s. On May 30, 2018, the Illinois House of Representatives followed the state senate in adopting a resolution purporting to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) proposed by Congress in 1972.REF Like many other media outlets, U.S. News & World Report reported that Illinois became the 37th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendmentputting it within a single state of the 38 needed to ratify a constitutional amendment.REF, The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has long had a different view. RES. [149] Schlafly said passage of the amendment would threaten Social Security benefits for housewives. By the fall of 1977, 35 states had ratified the ERA and, by the March 1979 deadline, five of those states had passed resolutions rescinding their ratifications.REF On October 26, 1977, Representative Elizabeth Holtzman (DNY) introduced House Joint Resolution 638 to extend the deadline until June 30, 1982. The first four rescinded before the original March 22, 1979 ratification deadline, while the South Dakota legislature did so by voting to sunset its ratification as of that original deadline. . "[116] An en banc rehearing request was denied on January 4, 2022. [129][34][144][145][146], Opponents of the ERA focused on traditional gender roles, such as how men do the fighting in wartime. 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. In other words, the case was moot because, in effect, the 1972 ERA was no longer pending before the states.REF, According to ERA advocates, one state has issued a formal opinion concerning the validity of the ERA in light of its expired time limit.REF Walter S. Felton Jr., Virginias Deputy Attorney General, opined in 1994 that the ERA was not currently before the states for ratification because its original and extended time limits had expired.REF, There was no confusion when the 1972 ERA was proposed that its ratification deadline was binding.REF Except for ERA advocates involved in the current ratification effort, there does not seem to be any confusion today. "Section 2. 39)which is worded with slight differences from Representative Baldwin's (H.J. Delegates to state Constitutional Conventions in 1868-69 and 1875 debated and rejected resolutions to amend the Texas Constitution to enfranchise women. Click here to contact us for media inquiries, and please donate here to support our continued expansion. [151], At the 1980 Republican National Convention, the Republican Party platform was amended to end its support for the ERA. The ERA is properly before the states for ratification, several scholars wrote in 1997, in light of the recent ratification of the Madison Amendment.REF This effort became known as the three-state strategy because, ERA advocates claimed at the time, ratification by three more states would add the 1972 ERA to the Constitution. States may still ratify the 1972 ERA only if it remains pending before the states. The Texas Legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment during a special session on March 30, 1972. [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. Has your state ratified the ERA? Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. The Equal Rights Amendment was a proposed 27th Amendment to the United States Constitution that passed both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. That August, over 20,000 American women held a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality protest to demand full social, economic, and political equality. However, most recently, ERA Action has both led and brought renewed vigor to the movement by instituting what has become known as the "three-state strategy". The code passed in the 1967 session, but the women reintroduced their proposed amendment anyway (see Matrimonial Property Act of 1967). The Texas House of Representatives held a hearing on the bill that was attended by hundreds of supporters for and against the recall measure. [121], On June 12, 2020, the District Court granted the Intervening states (Alabama, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Tennessee) motion to intervene in the case. Res. Illinois should ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. [135] On June 6, 1982, NOW sponsored marches in states that had not passed the ERA including Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. [citation needed] By the late 1960s, NOW had made significant political and legislative victories and was gaining enough power to become a major lobbying force. The joint resolution proposing the 1972 ERA, for example, opens this way: Resolvedthat the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be validwhen ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission by the Congress. Similarly, Section 3 of the 18th Amendment requires that it be ratifiedby the legislatures of the several Stateswithin seven years from date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress., When Congress does not impose a ratification deadline, the designation always appears in the joint resolutions proposing clause. Prop 7 added Section 3a of Article 1 of the Texas Constitution. Instead, it looks toward a legal system in which each person will be judged on the basis of individual merit and not on the basis of an unalterable trait of birth that bears no necessary relationship to need or ability. Because the proposing clause is merely legislative, they argue, the time limit can be changed if Congress exercises its power to adjust, amend, or extend its own legislative action with new legislative action.REF This claim does not, as others do, ignore the distinction between proposed amendments that lack a ratification deadline and those that have one. In May 1979, shortly after the original ratification deadline passed, the states of Idaho, which had rescinded its ratification, and Arizona, which had rejected ratification, filed suit in federal court. According to the National Archives, a proposed amendment becomes part of the Constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the States.REF. 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