It's Only Been 96 Years", "The Equal Rights Amendment: 111th Congress", "Bill Summary & Status 113th Congress (20132014) H.J. Fair Park is now a National Historic Landmark. The state ERA was passed first in the Senate, then in the House. The Court agreed after consideration of the memorandum for the Administrator of General Services.REF In that memo, the Acting Solicitor General noted that because the 1972 ERAs ratification deadline had passed with fewer than two-thirds of the states ratifying, the Amendment has failed of adoption.REF, The Idaho v. Freeman case, therefore, is instructive in two respects. Carter signed the joint resolution, although he noted, on strictly procedural grounds, the irregularity of his doing so given the Supreme Court's decision in 1798. The Handbook of Texas Women project has its own dedicated website and resources. That August, over 20,000 American women held a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality protest to demand full social, economic, and political equality. 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. No political, civil, or legal disabilities or inequalities on account of sex or on account of marriage, unless applying equally to both sexes, shall exist within the United States or any territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Chicago . [196][197] House Memorial No. The commission was chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, who opposed the ERA but no longer spoke against it publicly. At various times, in six of the 12 non-ratifying states, one house of the legislature approved the ERA. 47). Four of the six unratified amendments remain pending before the states because they were proposed without a ratification deadline. States can continue to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) that Congress proposed in 1972 only if it is still pending before the states. 47) to remove the congressionally imposed deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. 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. In the early history of the Equal Rights Amendment, middle-class women were largely supportive, while those speaking for the working class were often opposed, pointing out that employed women needed special protections regarding working conditions and employment hours. It did not come to a vote in either chamber. [35], At the Democratic National Convention in 1960, a proposal to endorse the ERA was rejected after it was opposed by groups including the American Civil Liberties Union[36] (ACLU), the AFLCIO, labor unions such as the American Federation of Teachers, Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), the American Nurses Association, the Women's Division of the Methodist Church, and the National Councils of Jewish, Catholic, and Negro Women. [119] On March 10, 2020, the Plaintiff States (Virginia, Illinois and Nevada) filed a memorandum in opposition to the five states seeking to intervene. If a ratification deadline placed in a joint resolutions proposing clause is valid, the 1972 ERA formally died on June 30, 1982. It would, therefore, no longer be pending before the states and no amendment would exist today for additional states to ratify. "Congress must act now to remove the . Congress, they point out, did so when it extended the ERA ratification deadline from March 22, 1979, to June 30, 1982. 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. These women argued that the ERA would disadvantage housewives, cause women to be drafted into the military and to lose protections such as alimony, and eliminate the tendency for mothers to obtain custody over their children in divorce cases. 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. This Legal Memorandum analyzes the second category of efforts by ERA advocates, which attempt today to ratify the ERA that Congress proposed in 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. When that Congress adjourns, all pending legislative measures expire. By 1977, the legislatures of 35 states had approved the amendment. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was proposed to be the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution when it was passed by Congress on March 22, 1972 and then forwarded to states for ratification. And while the House of Representatives voted 35224 on the joint resolution proposing the 1972 ERA, the vote on an identical joint resolution in January 1983 was 278147less than the two-thirds threshold required by Article V. ERA advocates ignore the distinction between proposed constitutional amendments, like the Madison Amendment, that lack a ratification deadline, and those, like the 1972 ERA, that have such a deadline. 208. 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. [117], On January 30, 2020, the attorneys general of Virginia, Illinois and Nevada filed a lawsuit to require the Archivist of the United States to "carry out his statutory duty of recognizing the complete and final adoption" of the ERA as the Twenty-eighth Amendment to the Constitution. Senator Cardin was joined by seventeen other senators who cosponsored the Senate Joint Resolution. In the final week before the revised deadline, that ratifying resolution, however, was defeated in the Florida Senate by a vote of 16 to 22. A majority of state constitutions have gender equality provisions. They took homemade bread, jams, and apple pies to the state legislators, with the slogans, "Preserve us from a Congressional jam; Vote against the ERA sham" and "I am for Mom and apple pie. The number of states ratifying it declined rapidly, from 30 in the first two years to only five in the next four years. [53][54] The Senate version, drafted by Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana,[55] passed after the defeat of an amendment proposed by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina that would have exempted women from the draft. 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. Advocates began developing this strategy after the Madison Amendments 1992 ratification. [59] On July 9, 1978, NOW and other organizations hosted a national march in Washington, D.C., which garnered over 100,000 supporters, and was followed by a Lobby Day on July 10. National Archives Foundation700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20408-0001202-357-5946, Upcoming Exhibit All American: The Power of Sports, Joint Resolution of March 22, 1972, 86 STAT 1523, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women, 3/22/1972, Emancipation Proclamation & General Order No. On March 5, 2013, the ERA was reintroduced by Senator Menendez as S.J. [151], At the 1980 Republican National Convention, the Republican Party platform was amended to end its support for the ERA. All 56 joint resolutions for proposing the ERA that include a ratification deadline place it in the proposing clause. [203] The House passed the resolution by a 222204 vote on March 17, 2021. Counties | The Equal Rights Amendment was conceptually simple; it would grant Congress the ability to enforce legal equality between men and women via an amendment to the constitution. This document is being featured in conjunction with the National Archives National Conversation on Womens Rights and Gender Equality. 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. If, indeed, a state legislature has the ability to rescind, then the ERA actually had ratifications by only 30 statesnot 35when March 22, 1979, arrived. Texas remains one of only 26 states to have passed its own ERA. 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. Thomas Jipping is Deputy Director and Senior Legal Fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, of the Institute for Constitutional Government, at The Heritage Foundation. [178], Illinois state lawmakers ratified the ERA on May 30, 2018, with a 7245 vote in the Illinois House following a 4312 vote in the Illinois Senate in April 2018. Such after-the-fact recognition does not, as ERA advocates assert, constitute congressional promulgation of the Madison Amendment.REF, Second, [o]n its merits, the notion of congressional promulgation is inconsistent with both the text of Article V of the Constitution and with the bulk of past practice.REF Both liberal and conservative scholars reject this theory. She also claimed that laws to protect women in the workforce from unsafe working conditions would be needed by men, too, and thus the ERA would help all people. This play gets her life's work right", "The History Behind the Equal Rights Amendment", "Wanna Save Roe v. Wade? A majority of states ratified the proposed constitutional amendment within a year. When it was created the 14th Amendment to the Constitution ensured rights for? Between 1972 and 1982, ERA supporters held rallies, petitioned, picketed, went on hunger strikes, and performed acts of civil disobedience. Four years later, when considering Senate Joint Resolution 25, the Senate first voted 5131 for an amendment offered by Senator Carl Hayden (DAZ) that read: The provisions of this article shall not be construed to impair any rights, benefits, or exemptions conferred by law upon persons of the female sex.REF The Senate then voted 6319 for the amended version.REF. [193] The resolution had 56 cosponsors. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) championed it in the Senate from the 99th Congress through the 110th Congress. The South Dakota Legislature ratified the ERA in 1973, but in 1979 passed Senate Joint Resolution 2 which required the ERA be ratified in the original time limit set by Congress or be rescinded. [1][2], Election results via: Legislative Reference Library of Texas. 10), Kentucky (March 17, 1978: House [Joint] Resolution No. [153] The most prominent opponent of the ERA was Schlafly. [18] The proposal was seconded by Dr. Frances Dickinson, a cousin of Susan B. 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. Article V of the Constitution speaks only to the states power to ratify an amendment but not to the power to rescind a ratification. Letter to House Judiciary Committee, June 14, 1978. Rather than establish that a ratification deadline in the joint resolutions proposing clause is invalid, ERA advocates make arguments that are relevant, if at all, only to proposed constitutional amendments that have no ratification deadline. Has your state ratified the ERA? Advocates claiming that the 1972 ERA can still be ratified today make several errors, such as failing to distinguish between types of constitutional amendments and misunderstanding congressional authority over the constitutional amendment process. For example, a question of equality before the law; we are interested in the Equal Rights Amendment." Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress On March 22, 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states for ratification. In 1974, Texas attorney general John Hill cited the Texas ERA when he struck down laws restricting the hours women could work, except in instances where they consented to such restrictions, since this benefit was denied male employees. 638 be transmitted to then-President Jimmy Carter for signature as a safety precaution. 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. [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. https://www.tshaonline.org, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-equal-rights-amendment. These proponents state that Congress can remove the ERA's ratification deadline despite the deadline having expired, allowing the states again to ratify it. Sherilyn Brandenstein, When the 115th Congress adjourned, however, bills introduced but not enacted expired. And they incorrectly posit that Congress has complete, plenary authority over the entire constitutional amendment process. Despite being centered in New York Citywhich was regarded as one of the biggest strongholds for NOW and other groups sympathetic to the women's liberation movement such as Redstockings[48]and having a small number of participants in contrast to the large-scale anti-war and civil rights protests that had occurred in the recent time prior to the event,[47] the strike was credited as one of the biggest turning points in the rise of second-wave feminism. In 1972, Idaho was among the first wave of states to ratify the ERA, approving it overwhelmingly. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." [51][52] Griffiths's joint resolution was then adopted by the Senatewithout changeon March 22, 1972, by a vote of 84 yeas, 8 nays and 7 not voting. Even if Congress had authority to determine whether a proposed constitutional amendment pending indefinitely before the states has been ratified, that could not constitute authority to say that a proposed amendment is still pending even after its ratification deadline has passed. [181][182][183] In 2019, a Senate committee voted to advance the ERA to the floor. Texas Women's Political Times, Spring 1983. The Texas ERA passed on Nov. 7, 1972, with 2,156,536 votes in favor, 548,422 votes against. [27], The National Woman's Party already had tested its approach in Wisconsin, where it won passage of the Wisconsin Equal Rights Law in 1921. [34][56] President Richard Nixon immediately endorsed the ERA's approval upon its passage by the 92nd Congress. Handbook of Texas Online, Alice Hamilton, in her speech "Protection for Women Workers", said that the ERA would strip working women of the small protections they had achieved, leaving them powerless to further improve their condition in the future, or to attain necessary protections in the present. [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. States may still ratify the 1972 ERA only if it remains pending before the states. Beginning in the mid-1990s, ERA supporters began an effort to win ratification of the ERA by the legislatures of states that did not ratify it between 1972 and 1982. The joint resolution can originate in either the House or the Senate. By May 1919, Hobby recommended that the Texas Constitution be amended to offer full voting rights to women, but the amendment was defeated by a majority of 25,000 votes. Barron, Keller (2022). [114][115] On June 29, 2021, the First Circuit affirmed the District Court's decision that "the plaintiffs have not met their burden at the pleading stage with respect to those federal constitutional requirements, we affirm the order dismissing their suit for lack of standing. Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972. Like its general authority to impose a ratification deadline, Congress has long believed that it may place such a deadline in either the resolutions proposing clause or the amendments text. It was the location of the Texas State Fair. The relevant consensus is not about a generalized problem, but about the proposed constitutional amendment as a solution. [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. Even if Florida had ratified the ERA, the proposed amendment would still have fallen short of the required 38. The E.R.A. Leading the Stop ERA campaign, Schlafly defended traditional gender roles and would often attempt to incite feminists by opening her speeches with lines such as, "I'd like to thank my husband for letting me be here tonightI always like to say that, because it makes the libs so mad. According to Professor Edward H. Miller, it played a key role in addition to Schlafly in preventing the amendments ratification. [78], A resolution was introduced in the Minnesota Senate on January 11, 2021, whichif adoptedwould retroactively clarify that Minnesota's 1973 ratification of the ERA expired as of the originally-designated March 22, 1979, deadline.[79]. As outlined above, however, Coleman explicitly acknowledged this distinction. "We're proud that two years ago today Virginia became the 38 th and final state needed to ratify the ERA, meeting the requirement to enshrine equal rights in our Constitution," said the Senators. All rights reserved. The Supreme Court declared these controversies moot based on the memorandum of the appellant Gerald P. Carmen, the then-Administrator of General Services, that the ERA had not received the required number of ratifications (38) and so "the Amendment has failed of adoption no matter what the resolution of the legal issues presented here. Anthony. The Texas Legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment during a special session on March 30, 1972. The OLC opinion stated on this point that if congressional promulgation is requiredthe executive branch would have illegally certified every [constitutional] amendment except the Fourteenth.REF Congress has no authority to determine whether the 1972 ERA can still become part of the Constitution now that its ratification deadline has expired. However, she never went so far as to endorse the ERA. Res. 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. South Dakota's 1979 sunset joint resolution declared: "the Ninety-fifth Congress ex post facto has sought unilaterally to alter the terms and conditions in such a way as to materially affect the congressionally established time period for ratification" (designated as "POM-93" by the U.S. Senate and published verbatim in the Congressional Record of March 13, 1979, at pages 4861 and 4862). 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. Could the Equal Rights Amendment still be ratified today? 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. 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. The Congressional Research Service is correct. A few months later, women legislators employed the new amendment in preparing several laws to halt discriminatory practices. [125] Oral arguments were held on September 28, 2022,[126] before a panel composed by judges Wilkins, Rao and Childs.[127]. Congress, of course, can conclude anything it wishes, including whether a proposed constitutional amendment has been properly ratified. Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides for two methods of proposing amendments. [157] Mansbridge concluded, "Many people who followed the struggle over the ERA believedrightly in my viewthat the Amendment would have been ratified by 1975 or 1976 had it not been for Phyllis Schlafly's early and effective effort to organize potential opponents. Can a state legally rescind their ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The congress was organized by suffragist Dr. Ellen Lawson Dabbs, secretary of the Texas Equal Rights Association. Defense of traditional gender roles proved to be a useful tactic. After. Several states crafted and adopted their own equal rights amendments during the 1970s and 1980s, while the ERA was before the states, or afterward. The 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. The resolution passed the House of Representatives in 2020, but did not receive a vote in the Senate. [90] H.J.Res. Ballotpedia features 393,618 encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers. The purported extension of ERA's ratification deadline was vigorously contested in 1978 as scholars were divided as to whether Congress actually has authority to revise a previously agreed-to deadline for the states to act upon a constitutional amendment. Because thirty-eight states failed to ratify the amendment by March 31, 1979 the South Dakota Legislature rescinded its ratification of the ERA. Advocates began that effort in 1995, nearly two decades before any Member of Congress had taken a single step to amend or repeal the 1972 ERAs ratification deadline. [188], In 1983, the ERA passed through House committees with the same text as in 1972; however, it failed by six votes to achieve the necessary two-thirds vote on the House floor. See, "Equal Means Equal v. 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