Posted on 05/31/2018 9:06:09 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever
SPRINGFIELD—The Illinois House made history on Wednesday, allowing for the state to become the 37th in the country to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment designed to protect Americans against discrimination based on their sex.
Nearly a century after the amendment was drafted, the Illinois House voted 72-45 to ratify it following more than two hours of debate. Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan stood behind the speaker’s podium in the House chambers to watch the historic vote. The Illinois Senate voted to approve it in April.
While the vote may be symbolic — the country needs one more state to ratify the amendment — the state’s passage creates a window of opportunity for the embattled constitutional amendment. The state is where the efforts seized in 1982. Only 35 of the necessary 38 states ratified the amendment before the 1979 deadline set by Congress. The deadline was extended to 1982, but that made no difference as Illinois and other states remained firmly against the proposal.
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Then, I believe, the amendment would be placed before a vote of the country for approval or not.
There's no referendum process for constitutional amendments at the federal level. Once 3/4ths of the states ratify, that's it. (Setting aside the issue of states rescinding their ratifications, and the question of the original ratification deadline attached to the proposed amendment.)
Ahhh ... thank you. Now I'll spend the rest of the day trying to figure out where I got that notion from ...
I guess they don't know the meaning of the word "deadline".
The ERA was rejected so the Supreme Court just pretended that it was there all along, hidden somewhere in the emanations from penumbra.
The Constitution now says whatever the hell 5 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices want it to say.
It is a long standing Democrat tradition. Keep counting and recounting the votes until you are ahead and then declare the matter settled.
Will the ladies also be signing up for selective service?
Perhaps it isn’t as equal an amendment as they’d anticipated.
So, they really have to do it all over again?
Well I was alive when this was all going on and it was my understanding that when the final deadline past it was dead.
However, if one more state votes on it, it will go to the courts to decide eventually reaching the Supreme Court and you never know what secrets they can discover in the constitution.
This was always a stupid attempt by Feminazis to advance their Femrot. This only opens the door for freaks who identify as such.
It’s dead. Phyllis Schlafly killed it permanently.
She pointed out that if it passes, then the law becomes genderless. The draft, family court, all of it becomes gender neutral in the eyes of the law, and no fundamental differences between the sexes can exist in the eyes of the law.
That killed it dead. It always comes back around to accountability and reason. That’s the true glass ceiling.
The federal courts already ruled on this in 1982.
To put women in foxholes.
To put men into women's restrooms.
To destroy marriage.
When the ERA failed, proponents decided to do work-arounds.
It took a little longer, but the left has achieved everything they wanted from the ERA effort.
It happened in California. With liberals, all things are possible.
“I remember when the ERA was touted. The proponents swore up and down it would NOT lead to men being allowed to use women’s restrooms. OH, WAIT!.... “
Considering where we are today, I suspect that if the ERA were passed, it could be used to TURN BACK the left’s agenda in this country.
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