Equal Rights Amendment Extension: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First and Second Sessions, on H.J. Res. 638 Extending the Ratification Period for the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment, November 1, 4, and 8, 1977; and May 17, 18, 19, 1978 |
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... amendment will reflect the reasonably contemporaneous " expression of the ... amendment has been proposed and has been sub- mitted to the States . Indeed , as we ... 27 History has shown us that consideration by the States of proposed ...
... amendment will reflect the reasonably contemporaneous " expression of the ... amendment has been proposed and has been sub- mitted to the States . Indeed , as we ... 27 History has shown us that consideration by the States of proposed ...
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... Amendment , the Court suggested that the constitutional viability of an . amendment might well turn on " an appraisal ... 27-28 . 30 We do not think anyone could seriously doubt that a State's rescission of its ratifica- tion subsequent ...
... Amendment , the Court suggested that the constitutional viability of an . amendment might well turn on " an appraisal ... 27-28 . 30 We do not think anyone could seriously doubt that a State's rescission of its ratifica- tion subsequent ...
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... 27th amendment to the Constitution has been whether a State once it has ratified the amendment may later change its mind and rescind its rati- fication . The issue was first raised by the State of Nebraska which has now rescinded its ...
... 27th amendment to the Constitution has been whether a State once it has ratified the amendment may later change its mind and rescind its rati- fication . The issue was first raised by the State of Nebraska which has now rescinded its ...
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... explicitly for such a right to rescind . This is so be- cause the power of Congress to grant such a right to the States by statute would perhaps be placed in a different footing . token , recognized that through the passage of time , 27.
... explicitly for such a right to rescind . This is so be- cause the power of Congress to grant such a right to the States by statute would perhaps be placed in a different footing . token , recognized that through the passage of time , 27.
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... 27th amendment as proposed by Congress in 1972 followed the general pattern rather than the exception for that 32- year period . The amendment itself contains no deadline . That , it seems to me , is doubly significant in light of ...
... 27th amendment as proposed by Congress in 1972 followed the general pattern rather than the exception for that 32- year period . The amendment itself contains no deadline . That , it seems to me , is doubly significant in light of ...
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Page 20 - In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this twentieth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and of the independence of the United States...
Page 311 - Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation in places where they are liable to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police power.
Page 8 - The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. AMENDMENT XXVII [Proposed] * Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.
Page 123 - HR 32, before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 94th Cong., 2d Sess.
Page 282 - ... policy determination of a kind clearly for nonjudicial discretion ; or the impossibility of a court's undertaking independent resolution without expressing lack of the respect due coordinate branches of government ; or an unusual need for unquestioning adherence to a political decision already made; or the potentiality of embarrassment from multifarious pronouncements by various departments on one question.
Page 310 - The Equal Rights Amendment, which if adopted will resolve the substance of this precise question, has been approved by the Congress and submitted for ratification by the States. If this Amendment is duly adopted, it will represent the will of the people accomplished in the manner prescribed by the Constitution.
Page 311 - The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either.
Page 20 - April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, hereinbefore cited, do hereby certify, that, if the resolutions of the legislatures of Ohio and New Jersey, ratifying the aforesaid amendment, are to be deemed as remaining of full force and effect, notwithstanding the subsequent resolutions of the legislatures of those states, which purport to withdraw the consent of said states from such ratification, then the aforesaid amendment has been ratifled in the manner hereinbefore mentioned, and so has become valid,...
Page 18 - ... an appraisal of a great variety of relevant conditions, political, social and economic, which can hardly be said to be within the appropriate range of evidence receivable in a court of justice and as to which it would be an extravagant extension of judicial authority to assert judicial notice...
Page 288 - V an express provision for proposing amendments by a two-thirds vote of each house of Congress, or by a convention called by Congress upon the application of the legislatures of twothirds of the states. The former method has been uniformly pursued heretofore.