Posted on 04/20/2018 2:18:04 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
It’s interesting that you say that.
If the liberal of today were “switched” with the libs of yesteryear, “today’s” liberals would just pack the courts and declare it a “right’ already found in the constitution.
No need for those fussy amendments the Founders thought were needed to update the “Living Constitution”
The unwritten rule is a 7 year time limit. However, libs these days would do anything to get what they want.
Before the 18th Amendment, there were no ratification windows declared by Congress, so once an amendment was sent to the states for ratification, it was still valid for ratification no matter how many years it took. The 27th Amendment, sent to the states for ratification in 1789 and finally ratified in 1992, is an example.
Starting with the 18th Amendment, however, Congress began declaring ratification windows.
The idea that women should have the identical rights afforded men was first broached in 1916, and in 1923 the E.R.A. was proposed by the National Women’s Party. Working against it were feminists who objected to identical rights, led by Eleanor Roosevelt. She said women needed special protection against hazardous and “demeaning” occupations, jobs that only men should have to do. Her opposition proved to be successful...
IOW, Eleanor was a feminist. Thanks heterosupremacist.
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