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Equal Rights Amendment
Title: Equal Rights Amendment
Category: Law & Government / Law Issues
Details: Words: 1123 | Pages: 4.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
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.'
In 1923, this statement was admitted to Congress under the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The ERA was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution granting equality between men and women under the law. If the Era was passed, it would have made unconstitutional any laws that grant one sex different rights …showed first 75 words of 1123 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1123 total…rest the controversy over protective legislation and equal rights. Like the Fourteenth Amendment, we are inclined to forget that the ERA was designed not to change values but to modify behavior of mainstream citizens by changing the constitutional status of a particular group. The ERA's purpose was and is to provide equality of opportunity through the Constitution and legal system for those women who want to realize full personal and professional expectations within mainstream America
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