It firmly rejects sharp legislative lines between the sexes as constitutionally tolerable. Therefore, it is most likely that the actions of the five states Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Tennessee that voted to rescind their ratification of the ERA between 1972 and 1982 are a legal nullity. [95], According to research by Jules B. Gerard, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, of the 35 legislatures that passed ratification resolutions, 24 of them explicitly referred to the original 1979 deadline.[96]. [14], The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part:[15]. "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. They do not purport to have any legal effect or to play any role in the Madison Amendment becoming part of the Constitution. 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. March 22, 1972. [135] On June 6, 1982, NOW sponsored marches in states that had not passed the ERA including Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, and Oklahoma. The lieutenant governor of Kentucky, Thelma Stovall, who was acting as governor in the governor's absence, vetoed the rescinding resolution. In 1983, the Texas Women's Political Caucus reported that the Legislative Council had evaluated and revised Texas laws concerning human resources, natural resources, penal procedures, probate and tax policies, and some aspects of family relations to meet federal and state requirements, including the Texas ERA. 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. After Republicans took over control of both chambers, they did not move to revoke that ratification as a handful of other GOP-led states have. A total of 56 joint resolutions for proposing the ERA introduced between the 92nd and 102nd Congresses included a ratification deadline. the Twenty-seventh amendment. 47). [139], Many Republican women supported the ERA including Florence Dwyer, Jill Ruckelshaus, Mary Dent Crisp, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, First Lady Betty Ford and Senator Margaret Chase Smith. [162] Such supporters argued that while the public face of the anti-ERA movement was Phyllis Schlafly and her STOP ERA organization, there were other important groups in the opposition as well, such as the powerful National Council of Catholic Women, labor feminists[verification needed] and (until 1973) the AFLCIO. 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. The congress was organized by suffragist Dr. Ellen Lawson Dabbs, secretary of the Texas Equal Rights Association. ERA advocates also assert that Congress has authority to amend or change a ratification deadline that appears in the proposing clause. For that same reason, however, the district courts analysis remains uncontradicted and available for consideration and persuasion. The constitutional amendment process, therefore, has two stages: proposal and ratification. Addressing the validity of the 1972 ERAs ratification deadline begins by determining whether Congress has authority to set any ratification deadline when it proposes a constitutional amendment.REF Congress has long believed that it does. 638 be transmitted to then-President Jimmy Carter for signature as a safety precaution. They ignore the crucial distinction between proposed constitutional amendments that include a ratification deadline and those that do not. Ballotpedia features 393,618 encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers. The creation of a third steppromulgation by Congresshas no foundation in the text of the Constitution.REF Similarly, Professor Grover Rees writes that this theory is no more defensible than to find a third house of Congress hidden cleverly in the interstices of the constitutional language vesting all legislative power in a House and a Senate.REF, Similarly, the OLC concluded that a proposed amendment becomes part of the Constitution when proposed by the requisite majorities of both house of Congress, and has been ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States.REF The OLC opinion rejected the proposition that Congressmay determine whether an amendment has been constitutionally adopted. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) championed it in the Senate from the 99th Congress through the 110th Congress. Several states crafted and adopted their own equal rights amendments during the 1970s and 1980s, while the ERA was before the states, or afterward. Joint resolutions have the force of law and, in most cases, must be presented to the President for his signature. Whether Congress has authority to amend a ratification deadline it has imposed, however, has nothing to do with whether states may ignore that deadline and continue ratifying the amendment long after it has passed. The association assumed that passage of the new Family Code, which included these and related proposals, would prevent the need for a constitutional amendment. RES. 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. [179][180], An effort to ratify the ERA in the Virginia General Assembly in 2018 failed to reach the floor of either the House of Delegates or Senate. [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. When Congress also imposes a ratification deadline, it appears in the same location as the designation. 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. 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. While the deadline appears in the text of the 18th and 20th through 22nd Amendments, for example, it appears in the proposing clause for the 23rd through the 26th Amendments. "[116] An en banc rehearing request was denied on January 4, 2022. As the seven-year time limit for ratification approached in 1979, Congress and President Jimmy Carter controversially extended the deadline three years. . [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. [133], The National Organization for Women (NOW) and ERAmerica, a coalition of almost 80 organizations, led the pro-ERA efforts. And they incorrectly posit that Congress has complete, plenary authority over the entire constitutional amendment process. It is unclear why ERA advocates advance this argument at all because it is entirely irrelevant to the current strategy for ratifying the 1972 ERA. This amendment was sometimes known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment and became the 19th Amendment. 17) to remove the deadline for ratification was again introduced in both chambers, with bipartisan support. Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides for two methods of proposing amendments. The next year, the introduction of the federal equal rights amendment in Congress gave the state measure greater credibility. [130] While at a discussion at Georgetown University in February 2020, Ginsburg noted the challenge that "if you count a latecomer on the plus side, how can you disregard states that said 'we've changed our minds? 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. 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. If it is not, however, the 1972 ERA cannot be. When the 115th Congress adjourned, however, bills introduced but not enacted expired. These provisions were broadly written to ensure political and civil equality between women and men. [70] Given that Article V explicitly provides that amendments are valid "when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states"[71] this raised questions as to whether a state's governor, or someone temporarily acting as governor, has the power to veto any measure related to amending the United States Constitution. [1] [2] Election results The amendment was finally ratified in the election of November 7, 1972, with 80 percent of voters in favor. This is why the CRS was correct to conclude that the 1972 ERA formally died on June 30, 1982.. In 1978, Congress passed (by simple majorities in each house), and President Carter signed, a joint resolution with the intent of extending the ratification deadline to June 30, 1982. That year, votes were blocked in both states' House chambers. When that deadline passes without ratification by three-fourths of the states, the proposed amendment expires and is no longer pending. Neither the House nor the Senate has voted on a resolution to propose the ERA in more than three decades. Don't Look To The Courts", "Virginia Becomes Battleground Over Equal Rights Amendment", "Will Virginia be next to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment? 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. [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. From 1913-1917, the fair also featured a Suffrage Day when local suffragists would gather and promote womens voting rights. The joint resolution proposing the 21st Amendment, which would repeal the 18th, opens this way: Resolvedthat the following article is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be validwhen ratified by conventions in three-fourths of the several States.. Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. RES. The ELRA gained passage in the Senate, but House members voted it down by a slim margin. In 1978, before the original ratification deadline passed, Congress adopted a resolution extending the deadline to June 30, 1982, but no additional states ratified it. Narrowly written, it limits the equal rights conferred to "entering or pursuing a business, profession, vocation, or employment". If they have, congratulations! The first proposed language read: Two years later, at the partys 1923 convention, NWP president Alice Paul proposed a simpler version of the ERA, which was introduced in Congress in December of that year:REF. [11] In 2020, Virginia's General Assembly passed a ratification resolution for the ERA,[12][13] claiming to bring the number of ratifications to 38. [43], The national commission spurred the establishment of state and local commissions on the status of women and arranged for follow-up conferences in the years to come. In the meantime, the ERA ratification movement continued with the resolution being introduced in 10 state legislatures. Does it matter how the Equal Rights Amendment is worded? What else can I do? 4010), This page was last edited on 18 January 2023, at 16:12. Why did the Equal Rights Amendment of 1972 fail? [118] Three-fourths of the states needed to then agree to ratify it as a constitutional amendment, but it failed by a margin of three. [7] Since 1978, attempts have been made in Congress to extend or remove the deadline. The Texas ERA passed on Nov. 7, 1972, with 2,156,536 votes in favor, 548,422 votes against. [166], The ERA has long been opposed by anti-abortion groups who believe it would be interpreted to allow legal abortion without limits and taxpayer funding for abortion.[167][168][169]. In Coleman, the issue was whether the courts had authority to override Congress judgment about whether the time between an amendments proposal and ratification was reasonable. In Texas, activism for woman suffrage surged and waned several times during the state's history. To fight this recall effort, Texans for the ERA was formed and hired a full-time lobbyist, Norma Cude, to prevent the passage of the recall legislation. Fourth, this argument fails again to distinguish between amendments that have no ratification deadline and those that do. Most of these provisions mirror the broad language of the ERA, while the wording in others resembles the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. States may still ratify the 1972 ERA only if it remains pending before the states. 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. In 1972, Idaho was among the first wave of states to ratify the ERA, approving it overwhelmingly. If you change your mind, you can easily unsubscribe. U.S. Congress | 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. [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. [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. 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. Governor Ben Ramsey argued that women in his region preferred the protection of existing Texas laws to the equality authorized by the proposed amendment. [191], The "New ERA" introduced in 2013, sponsored by Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, adds an additional sentence to the original text: "Women shall have equal rights in the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction. Meanwhile, state-level equivalents aboundsome as comprehensive provisions of state constitutions that . When the Texas Legislature met in 1969, the proposed Texas Equal Rights Amendment received ready support in the Senate. While, as noted above, these have been introduced in nearly every Congress since 1923, their frequency has declined significantly since the ERAs extended ratification deadline passed in June 1982. It was sent to the states for ratification on March 22nd, 1972. "[101] In 2018, Virginia attorney general Mark Herring wrote an opinion suggesting that Congress could extend or remove the ratification deadline. [40], President Kennedy appointed a blue-ribbon commission on women, the President's Commission on the Status of Women, to investigate the problem of sex discrimination in the United States. In its work titled The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, the CRS states that the ERA formally died on June 30, 1982, after a disputed congressional extension of the original seven-year period for ratification.REF. We need your support because we are a non-profit organization that relies upon contributions from our community in order to record and preserve the history of our state. [37] Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy announced his support of the ERA in an October 21, 1960, letter to the chairman of the National Woman's Party. The commission was chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, who opposed the ERA but no longer spoke against it publicly. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Hollingsworth v. Virginia (1798)[91] that the President of the United States has no formal role in the passing of constitutional amendments. 2023 www.statesman.com. Signup today for our free newsletter, Especially Texan. Between 1957 and 1959, she and several federation leaders toured the state stumping for the amendment. Ratification resolutions have also been defeated in Arizona, Arkansas,[85] and Mississippi.[86][87][88]. The accompanying report described the ratification history and stated that the Supreme Court dismissed the Freeman litigation on the grounds that the ERA was dead for the reasons given by the administrator of general services.REF This echoed CRS earlier conclusion decades earlier that the ERA died on June 30, 1982. In other words, the effort to make the ERA part of the Constitution must begin again with a fresh-start proposal because the 1972 ERA is no longer pending before the states. Res. For example, the official tally of ratifying states for the 14thAmendment in 1868 by both the Secretary of State and Congress included New Jersey and Ohio, states which had passed resolutions to rescind their ratifications. First, ERA advocates falsely assert that Congress promulgated the Madison Amendment after assessing whether the amendment had lost its vitality through lapse of time.REF Michigan became the 38th state to ratify the Madison Amendment on May 7, 1992.REF On May 18, 1992, pursuant to statute,REF the Archivist certified that the Madison Amendment has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United States.REF, Thereafter, the House and Senate passed resolutions recognizing the Amendment.REF House Concurrent Resolution 320, for example, declared that the Madison Amendment has been ratified by a sufficient number of the States and has become a part of the Constitution.REF Two Senate resolutionsREF declared that the Madison Amendment has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution. On their face, these resolutions recognize or memorialize what had already occurred. 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. During the 65th Session of the Texas Legislature held January to June of 1977, bills were introduced in the House and Senate to recall Texas's ratification of the national Equal Rights Amendment. However, no additional states ratified. 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Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment on Wednesday, but Texas beat it to the punch nearly 50 years earlier. The Court said no. [195], On February 24, 2013, the New Mexico House of Representatives adopted House Memorial No. The Texas Equal Rights Amendment, also known as Proposition 7, was on the November 7, 1972 ballot in Texas as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment, where it was approved. 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. And in 1861, Congress narrowly proposed the so-called Corwin Amendment, which would deny Congress authority to abolish or interfere withthe domestic institutions of any state, including slavery.REF Five states ratified this amendment in the next two years, and two of those states later rescinded their ratification. 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