States can continue to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) that Congress proposed in 1972 only if it is still pending before the states. Res. The joint resolution can originate in either the House or the Senate. [34], On March 22, 1972, the ERA was placed before the state legislatures, with a seven-year deadline to acquire ratification by three-fourths (38) of the state legislatures. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. On June 28, 1919, the Texas legislature voted to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, the first southern state to do so. The assertion that the 1972 ERA can still be ratified today is based on four errors. These feminists argued that legislation including mandated minimum wages, safety regulations, restricted daily and weekly hours, lunch breaks, and maternity provisions would be more beneficial to the majority of women who were forced to work out of economic necessity, not personal fulfillment. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.[17]. The first involves continued introduction of fresh-start proposals,REF new joint resolutions for proposing the ERA and sending it to the states. In Texas, activism for woman suffrage surged and waned several times during the state's history. The text of the measure can be read here. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. In the 1880s, Texas women active in the woman suffrage movement were often also involved in the campaign for prohibition and temperance with the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union. All 56 joint resolutions for proposing the ERA that include a ratification deadline place it in the proposing clause. The resolution passed the House of Representatives in 2020, but did not receive a vote in the Senate. 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. In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment, designed to guarantee protection against sexual discrimination for women under the law, passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the individual states for ratification. 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." 208, which was adopted by the House on October 12, 1971, with a vote of 354 yeas (For), 24 nays (Against) and 51 not voting. 4010), This page was last edited on 18 January 2023, at 16:12. 208. Identical legislation can be, and often is, introduced in the next Congress, but it is new legislation for which the legislative process must begin again. In Illinois, the House but not the Senate passed an ERA ratification bill in 2003, while the Senate but not the House did so in 2014. The Texas Legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment during a special session on March 30, 1972. Article V of the Constitution speaks only to the states power to ratify an amendment but not to the power to rescind a ratification. They conflate whether Congress can change a ratification deadline before and after that deadline expires. [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. The only period when the ERA was not introduced was immediately after Congress proposed and sent it to the states in 1972. State-Level Equal Rights Amendments. 47). However, the 92nd Congress did not incorporate any time limit into the body of the actual text of the proposed amendment, as had been done with a number of other proposed amendments.[89]. Joint resolutions have the force of law and, in most cases, must be presented to the President for his signature. The Supreme Courts general comment in Dillon that a proposed constitutional amendment should not be open to ratification for all timeREF implied that the Constitution itself imposed a ratification deadline. Letter to House Judiciary Committee, June 14, 1978. ", "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. [59] At the same time, the legislatures of five states that had ratified the ERA then adopted legislation purporting to rescind those ratifications. This strategy, along with new women legislators' assistance, paid off. The next year, the introduction of the federal equal rights amendment in Congress gave the state measure greater credibility. A joint resolution is pending at the proposal stage during the Congress in which the joint resolution is introduced. 29), Idaho (February 8, 1977: House Concurrent Resolution No. Article V of the Constitution of the United States of America. It is difficult to argue that such a consensus lasted even to 1979the 1972 ERAs original ratification deadline. [60] The 1879 Constitution of California contains the earliest state equal rights provision on record. The House voted to remove those amendments and approved the ERA by a vote of 35224 on October 12, 1972.REF The Senate Judiciary Committee reported the unamended language on March 14, 1972, and the full Senate approved it by a vote of 848 on March 22, 1972. 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 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. During the 1975 legislative session, a statewide coalition of women's organizations returned to lobby the legislature when ERA opposition groups tried to have the Texas ERA rescinded. The Texas Legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment during a special session on March 30, 1972. Here is the quandary for ERA advocates. 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. This play gets her life's work right", "The History Behind the Equal Rights Amendment", "Wanna Save Roe v. Wade? In 1972, Idaho was among the first wave of states to ratify the ERA, approving it overwhelmingly. Protest and opposition for the Equal Rights Amendment raged between 1972 and 1982. A few months later, women legislators employed the new amendment in preparing several laws to halt discriminatory practices. Drawing a specific parallel with the legislative process can further clarify this point. From 1913-1917, the fair also featured a Suffrage Day when local suffragists would gather and promote womens voting rights. In 1978, before that deadline passed, Congress extended it to June 30, 1982.REF When that deadline passed with fewer than the constitutionally required number of state ratifications, the 1972 ERA expired and was no longer pending before the states. [28][29] The party then took the ERA to Congress, where U.S. senator Charles Curtis, a future vice president of the United States, introduced it for the first time in October 1921. At the beginning of the 117th Congress, a joint resolution (H.J.Res. [189], At the start of the 112th Congress on January 6, 2011, Senator Menendez, along with representatives Maloney, Jerrold Nadler (D-New York) and Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin), held a press conference advocating for the Equal Rights Amendment's adoption. Eleanor Roosevelt and most New Dealers also opposed the ERA. 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. "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. Just like a joint resolution for proposing a constitutional amendment no longer exists when the Congress in which it is introduced adjourns, a proposed constitutional amendment no longer exists when its ratification deadline passes. [48], In Washington, D.C., protesters presented a sympathetic Senate leadership with a petition for the Equal Rights Amendment at the U.S. Capitol. 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. Similarly, if Congress had authority to amend or repeal the 1972 ERAs ratification deadline after sending it to the states, Congress had to act while the measure was actually pending, that is, before it expired with the passage of the ratification deadline.REF. In California, the 1972 campaign to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution pitted amendment supporters against labor leaders trying to protect women-only protective labor laws. When the Texas Legislature met in 1969, the proposed Texas Equal Rights Amendment received ready support in the Senate. Texas voters endorsed the state equal rights amendment in November 1972. We believe thatcongressional promulgation is neither required by Article V nor consistent with constitutional practice.REF, Third, like the Supreme Courts observations about contemporaneous consensus or reasonableness, any suggestion of post-ratification promulgation by Congress was dictum. [34], At the 1944 Democratic National Convention, the Democrats made the divisive step of including the ERA in their platform, but the Democratic Party did not become united in favor of the amendment until congressional passage in 1972. "[192], On March 8, 2011, the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, Representative Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) introduced legislation (H.J. If you change your mind, you can easily unsubscribe. During this period, the House Judiciary Committee was chaired by Representative Emmanuel Celler (DNY), a close ally of organized labor, who blocked the ERAs consideration until the 91st Congress.REF Representative Martha Griffiths (DMI) introduced House Joint Resolution 264 in January 1969 and, after it, too, was blocked in the Judiciary Committee, filed a discharge petition on June 11, 1970. Res. The first constitutional amendment with a ratification deadline, the 18th Amendment, proposed in 1917, placed it in the amendments text. Don't Look To The Courts", "Virginia Becomes Battleground Over Equal Rights Amendment", "Will Virginia be next to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment? Handbook of Texas Online, . 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. The Texas Equal Rights Amendment was distinct from the federal ERA. [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. 208 of the 92nd Congress on March 22, 1972."[77] The resolution was formally received by the U.S. Senate on April 20, 2021, was designated as "POM-10", was referred to the Senate's Judiciary Committee, and its full and complete verbatim text was published at page S2066 of the Congressional Record. [196][197] House Memorial No. The 115th Congress lasted from January 3, 2017, to January 3, 2019. Ballot measures, Who represents me? In the House of Representatives, Carolyn Maloney (D-New York) has sponsored it since the 105th Congress,[187] most recently in August 2013. On June 18, 1980, a resolution in the Illinois House of Representatives resulted in a vote of 10271 in favor, but Illinois' internal parliamentary rules required a three-fifths majority on constitutional amendments and so the measure failed by five votes. Res. The Congressional Research Service then issued a report on the "three state strategy" on April 8, 2013, entitled "The Proposed Equal Rights Amendment: Contemporary Ratification Issues",[174] stating that the approach was viable. Advocates began developing this strategy after the Madison Amendments 1992 ratification. [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]. Revivification opponents caution ERA supporters against an overly broad interpretation of Coleman v. Miller, which, they argue, may have been be [sic] a politically influenced decision.[172]. It was referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties by the House Committee on the Judiciary on the same day. The 19th Amendment forbids the denial or abridgement of the right of U.S. citizens to vote based on sex. The recall bill died in committee and was not introduced in the next legislative session 2 years later. When that deadline passes without ratification by three-fourths of the states, the proposed amendment expires and is no longer pending. 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. [34] The ERA was strongly opposed by the American Federation of Labor and other labor unions, which feared the amendment would invalidate protective labor legislation for women. [199] The subcommittee heard testimony on the amendment and extension of the deadline on April 30, 2019.[200]. Four of the six unratified amendments remain pending before the states because they were proposed without a ratification deadline. America' 'hopelessly wrong.' It would be a disservice to the citizens of South Dakota to ignore this obligation of my office. 1107 (1981) | pp1107-11473 | Leagle.com", Memorandum of Gerald P. 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Congress proposed the ERA and sent it to the states on March 22, 1972, with a seven-year ratification deadline. -- House Vote #197 -- Oct 12, 1971", "TO PASS H.J. Equal Rights Amendment. 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. A majority of states ratified the proposed constitutional amendment within a year. Illinois, which in 1972 helped block the Equal Rights Amendment, has a chance to correct that mistake. [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. By 1977, the legislatures of 35 states had approved the amendment. However, the "Madison Amendment" was not associated with a ratification deadline, whereas the proposing clause of the ERA did include a deadline. West Virginia ratified the amendment in April 1972, the same year that Congress sent it to the states. In the 2010s, due in part to fourth-wave feminism and the Me Too movement, there was a renewed interest in adoption of the ERA. [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. By the 1870s, women pressured Congress to vote on an amendment that would recognize their suffrage rights. 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. On January 6, 2020, the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel official Steven Engel issued an opinion in response to the lawsuit by Alabama, Louisiana, and South Dakota, stating that "We conclude that Congress had the constitutional authority to impose a deadline on the ratification of the ERA and, because that deadline has expired, the ERA Resolution is no longer pending before the States. 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. [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? Dillon argued that the amendment was invalid because Congress had no authority to impose any ratification deadline. See, "Equal Means Equal v. 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You can contact your representatives in the U. S. Congress to urge them to sign on as co-sponsors of vital legislation to remove the time limit placed upon the ERA by Congress in 1972. 38) to again attempt to remove the deadline to ratify the amendment. 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. However, Gus Mutscher, the new speaker of the House, refused to let it out of committee. "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." In 1959, they had it introduced in the Texas Senate and House as the Texas Equal Legal Rights Amendment. [112][113] Subsequently, the Supreme Court denied the request to intervene before the First Circuit gives its decision. Members of Congress, for example, introduced 277 joint resolutions during the 91st Congress (19691970) before the ERA was sent to the states; 10 during the 93rd through the 97th Congresses, while the proposed ERA was pending before the states; and 44 in the 37 years since the ERAs extended ratification deadline expired. [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. if(document.getElementsByClassName("reference").length==0) if(document.getElementById('Footnotes')!==null) document.getElementById('Footnotes').parentNode.style.display = 'none'; What's on my ballot? Some are comprehensive provisions of state constitutions that guarantee . No evidence exists that any member of either Congress or any state legislature questioned whether placement in the proposing clause affected a ratification deadlines validity in any way. RES. 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. [8][9] In 2017, Nevada became the first state to ratify the ERA after the expiration of both deadlines,[10] and Illinois followed in 2018. The amendment reads: Eventually, this resulted in feminist dissatisfaction with the Republican Party, giving the Democrats a new source of strength that when combined with overwhelming minority support, helped elect Bill Clinton to the presidency in 1992 and again in 1996. [195], On February 24, 2013, the New Mexico House of Representatives adopted House Memorial No. By 1977, the legislatures of 35 states had approved the amendment. A new campaign aims to make sure it happens", Virginia Senate panel passes Equal Rights Amendment, "The Equal Rights Amendment May Pass Now. 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? [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. 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. [133], The National Organization for Women (NOW) and ERAmerica, a coalition of almost 80 organizations, led the pro-ERA efforts. The Equal Rights Amendment, passed by Congress in 1972, received the approval of Texas that same year. 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. As of January 2020, the bill had 224 co-sponsors. While advocates attempt to draw a close parallel between the Madison Amendment and the 1972 ERA, the most obvious difference between them is the most relevant. They argued that the amendment would guarantee the possibility that women would be subject to conscription and be required to have military combat roles in future wars if it were passed. Sherilyn Brandenstein, The bill in the U. S. House of Representatives is: H. J. RES 17, The bill in the U.S. Senate is S. J. Res 1. If ERA advocates are correct that it is, then additional states may ratify it. Congress had originally set a ratification deadline of March 22, 1979, for the state legislatures to consider the ERA. 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. On June 21, 2009, the National Organization for Women decided to support both efforts to obtain additional state ratifications for the 1972 ERA and any strategy to submit a fresh-start ERA to the states for ratification.[171]. 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. 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 resolution was referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution by the House Committee on the Judiciary. Not a single additional state ratified the amendment during the deadline extension period, and five states had already rescinded their ratification. Discussion about whether to place a ratification deadline instead in the joint resolutions proposing clause began in 1932, when the House considered what would become the 20th Amendment.REF One reason suggested for the change was to avoid unnecessary cluttering up of the Constitution.REF. 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. 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. [6] Opponents also argued that men and women were already equal enough with the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964,[150] and that women's colleges would have to admit men. In the United States, the fight for a federal Equal Rights Amendment has been a century in the making. They also feared that the ERA would undercut the male-dominated labor unions that were a core component of the New Deal coalition. [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]. The resolution was referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary, where a vote on it was never brought. [107], On February 27, 2020, the States of Alabama, Louisiana and South Dakota entered into a joint stipulation and voluntary dismissal with the Archivist of the United States. , As of 2022, the Twenty-seventh amendment. At various times, in six of the 12 non-ratifying states, one house of the legislature approved the ERA. 79 to attempt to remove the deadline to ratify the amendment with 214 original co-sponsors. Rodric B. Schoen, "The Texas ERA after the First Decade: Judicial Developments, 19781982," Houston Law Review 20 (October 1983). If the CRS is correct that it is not, then additional states cannot ratify it because the 1972 ERA no longer exists. The Equal Rights Amendment has been a perennial topic in Congress since 1923, but not . In 1824, the states received an amendment giving Congress authority to prohibit child labor; 28 states ratified it by 1937. If states may ignore a ratification deadline that is not part of the amendment and is not ratified by the States, then they may similarly ignore Congress designation of how they must ratify a proposed amendment when it appears in that location. Even if Florida had ratified the ERA, the proposed amendment would still have fallen short of the required 38. The League of Women Voters, formerly the National American Woman Suffrage Association, opposed the Equal Rights Amendment until 1972, fearing the loss of protective labor legislation. It is the duty of the Attorney General to defend and support our Legislature. After. 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