Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 22, 1972, the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment, sending the measure to the states for ratification in order ...
More than 165 international constitutions include gender equality, and ours should, too. In January 2020, Virginia ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, becoming the final state needed to add about 170 ...
The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they ...
Three days from the end of his term, President Biden just announced that he has "long believed" the Equal Rights Amendment to be valid law: I have supported the Equal Rights Amendment for more than 50 ...
The head of the American Constitution Society says President Biden is right: The ratification standard has been met. Former senator (D-WI) Russ Feingold testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that's unlikely to ...
A deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment expired in 1982, but some states ratified it afterward. Some scholars argue the deadline is unconstitutional. Other legal experts said the ...
President Joe Biden on Friday declared the Equal Rights Amendment the law of the land, creating a constitutional quandary three days before leaving office and after years of warning that his successor ...
The Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first Convention for Women's Rights was held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14 ...