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| | Equal Rights Amendment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. | | | The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would guarantee equal rights under the law for Americans regardless of sex. | | | Illinois whose Senate voted to ratify the ERA in May of 1972, with a tally of 30 to 21; and whose House of Representatives voted to ratify the ERA on May 1, 1975, with a tally of 113 to 62; and again on May 21, 2003, with a tally of 76 to 41. |
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| | THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT: U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION |
| | Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. | | | The United States Commission on Civil Rights first endorsed the proposed Federal Equal Rights Amendment in 1973, soon after it was adopted by the United States Congress and reported to the individual States for ratification. | | | Even where the husband is the "sole provider," the court reasoned that the State's equal rights amendment requires recognition of the contribution of the homemaker wife and concluded that, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, it must be presumed that the property is held jointly. |
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| | A Short History of E.R.A. -- September 1986 Phyllis Schlafly Report |
| | ERA would give enormous power to the Federal courts to decide the definitions of the words in ERA, "sex" and "equality of rights." It is irresponsible to leave it to the courts to decide such sensitive, emotional and important issues as whether or not the language applies to abortion or homosexual rights. | | | ERA would give Congress the power to legislate on all those areas of law which include traditional differences of treatment on account of sex: marriage, property laws, divorce and alimony, child custody, adoptions, abortion, homosexual laws, sex crimes, private and public schools, prison regulations, and insurance. | | | ERA would make unconstitutional the laws, which then existed in every state, that impose on a husband the obligation to support his wife. |
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http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/1986/sept86/psrsep86.html
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| | Equal Rights Amendment -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | The main underlying principle of the amendment was that gender should not determine the legal rights of men or women, and it was designed to invalidate many state and federal laws that discriminate against women. | | | Equal protection is extended when the rules of law are applied equally in all like cases and when persons are exempt from obligations... |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9311167
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| | Report on Equal Rights Amendment - LCMS |
| | Second, the Equal Rights Amendment embodies the moral and practical judgment that the prohibition against the use of sex as a basis for differential treatment applies to all areas of legal rights. | | | The basic principle of the Equal Rights Amendment is that sex is not a permissible factor in determining the legal rights of women, or of men. | | | One of the issues of current concern now pending before the states is the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution of the United States of America. |
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http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/mosynod/web/eqrights.html
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| | Missouri Right To Life |
| | Hence, according to the court, it violates the state ERA. | | | If Congress announced the effectiveness of the amendment upon ratification by three-fourths of the states, would the courts acquiesce; under the principle that ratification is a political question not justiciable by the courts? | | | The question of ratifying the federal ERA is not merely an exercise in election-year posturing on "equal rights," in which legislators' votes will have no legal effect. |
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http://www.missourilife.org/legislation/era.htm
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| | Equal Rights Amendment |
| | Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. | | | The Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923, is still not part of the U.S. Constitution. | | | The ERA has been ratified by 35 of the necessary 38 states. |
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http://www.equalrightsamendment.org
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| | 4ERA |
| | The ratification of this amendment, 203 years after it was passed by Congress, set a precedent which, when applied to the Equal Rights Amendment, means that the | | | "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." | | | ERA is still legally viable and before the states |
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http://www.4era.org
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| | "The Stealth Equal Rights Amendment" |
| | All that remained was for three-quarters of the states to ratify it. | | | Excepting the 19th Amendment, which only addressed gender equity in voting rights, there is not now and never was a "gender equity" mandate in the Constitution. | | | In 1920, 52 years after the Fourteenth Amendment supposedly mandated gender equity, the states ratified the 19th Amendment which ordered that women thereafter have the right to vote. |
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http://www.geocities.com/djconhoo/ERA.html
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| | equal rights amendment |
| | Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution which | | | Equality of Rights under the law shall not be | | | TheEqual Rights AmendmentEquality of rights under the law shall not be denied or |
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| | American Rhetoric: Shirley Chisholm - For the Equal Rights Amendment (Aug 10, 1970) |
| | However, changes are being made so rapidly as a result of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is likely that by the time the equal rights amendment would become effective; no confliction State laws would remain. | | | Opponents of the amendment claim its ratification would throw the law into a state of confusion and would result in much litigation to establish its meaning. | | | The equal rights amendment would govern only the relationship between the State and its citizens -- not relationships between private citizens. |
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http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/shirleychisholmequalrights.htm
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| | The Supreme Court and Equal Rights |
| | The Amendment includes the Equal Protection Clause and declares that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens. | | | Virginia, the Court strikes down all state miscegenation laws. | | | United States, the Court rules that the U.S. government's power to exclude aliens is incontrovertible. |
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| | Equal Rights Amendment Opposition |
| | amendment made to section 74 of the 1975 Act by regulation 32 shall not... | | | Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would provide equality under... | | | rights campaigners must oppose this new criminal offence. |
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http://www.futuregate.co.uk/equal_rights_amendment_opposition.html
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| | "Equal Rights Amendment," 1992 |
| | The amendment also addresses the inadequacy of the 14th and 15th amendment of the United States Constitution to help eliminate legalized sex discrimination. | | | The 14th and 5th Amendments have NOT been interpreted by the Courts to mean sex discrimination is Unconstitutional. | | | The ERA affects only Governmental Action--such as equal pay and legal rights--NOT Private Relationships. |
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http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/iowaera/doc11.htm
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| | Handbook of Texas Online: TEXAS EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT |
| | Governor Ben Ramsey argued that women in his region preferred the protection of existing Texas laws to the equality authorized by the proposed amendment. | | | At its 1957 convention, the Texas federation accepted Tobolowsky's offer to document the need for the amendment and pledged to fund efforts for its passage. | | | 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. |
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| | THE FEMINIST CHRONICLES |
| | The petition, in the form of a request for writ of mandamus, was filed in the Appellate Court. | | | Reagan also endorsed the most extreme "paramount" version of the Human Life Amendment (HLA), a constitutional amendment which would ban abortion, the IUD, and some forms of the birth control pill. | | | Los Angeles (CA) NOW opened 1981 with a new service for members: Issues Briefing Sessions held each month on the Equal Rights Amendment and on the misleadingly named Human Life Amendment (HLA). |
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| | Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / Ironies of the equal rights battle |
| | The only thing we don't have is, ta da, the Equal Rights Amendment. | | | Does that portend a unisex Scout meeting before any amendment? | | | About 21 years ago, the Equal Rights Amendment crashed against a handful of legislators in North Carolina, Illinois, and Florida. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/12/14/ironies_of_the_equal_rights_battle
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| | Equal Rights Amendment |
| | Does an Equal Rights Amendment make a difference? | | | Related content from HighBeam Research on: Equal Rights Amendment | | | Interview: State Representative Deleta Williams and Representative Rob Andrews discuss the revival of interest in the Equal Rights Amendment |
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| | Equal Rights Amendment |
| | More on Equal Rights Amendment from Fact Monster: | | | This Day in History: March 22 - March 22 1765 The Stamp Act was enacted on the American colonies by Britain. | | | Moral Majority - Moral Majority, U.S. political action group composed of conservative, fundamentalist Christians. |
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| | Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights, |
| | Fast-forward a century to 1972 and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) by the United States Congress. | | | Its strategists, beginning with the dean of the church's law school at BYU, feared the worst—some going so far as to suggest that the ERA might seriously compromise the church’s legal status and sovereignty of its all-male priesthood. | | | Conjuring up images of unisex bathrooms, homosexuality, the dangers of women in the military, and the divine calling of stay-at-home motherhood—none of which were directly related to equal rights—the LDS campaign began in Utah at church headquarters but importantly was fought across the country in states that had not yet ratified the proposed amendment. |
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