The Equal Rights Amendment

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Equal Means Equal

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Author : Jessica Neuwirth
language : en
Publisher: New Press, The
Release Date : 2015-01-05

Equal Means Equal written by Jessica Neuwirth and has been published by New Press, The this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-05 with Law categories.

When the Equal Rights Amendment was first passed by Congress in 1972, Richard Nixon was president and All in the Family's Archie Bunker was telling his feisty wife Edith to stifle it. Over the course of the next ten years, an initial wave of enthusiasm led to ratification of the ERA by thirty-five states, just three short of the thirty-eight states needed by the 1982 deadline. Many of the arguments against the ERA that historically stood in the way of ratification have gone the way of bouffant hairdos and Bobby Riggs, and a new Coalition for the ERA was recently set up to bring the experience and wisdom of old-guard activists together with the energy and social media skills of a new-guard generation of women. In a series of short, accessible chapters looking at several key areas of sex discrimination recognized by the Supreme Court, Equal Means Equal tells the story of the legal cases that inform the need for an ERA, along with contemporary cases in which women's rights are compromised without the protection of an ERA. Covering topics ranging from pay equity and pregnancy discrimination to violence against women, Equal Means Equal makes abundantly clear that an ERA will improve the lives of real women living in America.

Constitutional Inequality

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Author : Gilbert Steiner
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 1985-05

Constitutional Inequality written by Gilbert Steiner and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-05 with Law categories.

When Congress passed a proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution in March 1972, a high level of optimism about ratification seemed well warranted. Steiner discusses what went wrong between the initial Congressional passage and the final failure to ratify a decade later. He argues that the accidents of legislative timing and the emergence of unanticipated complications related to disputes over conscription and abortion explain the outcome and also presage continuing trouble for efforts to renew the ERA proposal. While Steiner favors passage as a means to redress Constitutional inequality of women, he also notes the negative economic effects that passage would have on lower income women unable to take advantage of new opportunities. He concludes with an analysis of available alternatives and a proposal for future strategy. ISBN 0-8157-8128-8 : $22.95.

Gendered Citizenship

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Author : Rebecca DeWolf
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2021-10

Gendered Citizenship written by Rebecca DeWolf and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10 with Political Science categories.

By engaging deeply with American legal and political history as well as the increasingly rich material on gender history, Gendered Citizenship illuminates the ideological contours of the original struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) from 1920 to 1963. As the first comprehensive, full-length history of that struggle, this study grapples not only with the battle over women's constitutional status but also with the more than forty-year mission to articulate the boundaries of what it means to be an American citizen. Through an examination of an array of primary source materials, Gendered Citizenship contends that the original ERA conflict is best understood as the terrain that allowed Americans to reconceptualize citizenship to correspond with women's changing status after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Finally, Rebecca DeWolf considers the struggle over the ERA in a new light: focusing not on the familiar theme of why the ERA failed to gain enactment, but on how the debates transcended traditional liberal versus conservative disputes in early to mid-twentieth-century America. The conflict, DeWolf reveals, ultimately became the defining narrative for the changing nature of American citizenship in the era.

Constitutional Orphan

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Author : Paula A. Monopoli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020

Constitutional Orphan written by Paula A. Monopoli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Law categories.

An account of the ramifications of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the divisions it created in the courts and Congress, and in the women's movement itself.Constitutional Orphan explores the role of former suffragists in the constitutional development of the Nineteenth Amendment, during the decade following its ratification in 1920. It examines the pivot to new missions, immediately after ratification, by two national suffrage organizations, the National Woman's Party and the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The NWP turned from suffrage to a federal equal rights amendment. NAWSA became the National League of Women Voters, and turned to voter education and social welfare legislation. The book then connects that pivot by both groups, to the emergence of a thin conception of the Nineteenth Amendment, as a matter of constitutional interpretation. It surfaces the history around the Congressional failure to enact enforcement legislation, pursuant to the Nineteenth, and connects that with the NWP's perceived need for southern Congressional votes for the ERA. It also explores the choice to turn away from African American women suffragists asking for help to combat voter suppression efforts, after the November 1920 presidential election; and then evaluates the deep divisions among NWP members, some of whom were social feminists who opposed the ERA, and the NLWV, which supported the social feminists in that opposition. The book also analyzes how state courts, left without federal enforcement legislation to constrain or guide them, used strict construction to cabin the emergence of a more robust interpretation of the Nineteenth. It concludes with an examination of new legal scholarship, which suggests broader ways in which the Nineteenth could be used today to expand gender equality.

The People S Constitution

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Author : John F. Kowal
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2021-09-21

The People S Constitution written by John F. Kowal and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-21 with Law categories.

The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the product of compromises and an artifact of its time—and made it more democratic Who wrote the Constitution? That’s obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. The real history of the Constitution is the astonishing story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. It’s a story of how We the People have improved our government’s structure and expanded the scope of our democracy during eras of transformational social change. The People’s Constitution is an elegant, sobering, and masterly account of the evolution of American democracy. From the addition of the Bill of Rights, a promise made to save the Constitution from near certain defeat, to the post–Civil War battle over the Fourteenth Amendment, from the rise and fall of the “noble experiment” of Prohibition to the defeat and resurgence of an Equal Rights Amendment a century in the making, The People’s Constitution is the first book of its kind: a vital guide to America’s national charter, and an alternative history of the continuing struggle to realize the Framers’ promise of a more perfect union.

The Equal Rights Amendment

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970

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The Equal Rights Amendment

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970

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Statement On The Equal Rights Amendment

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Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978

Statement On The Equal Rights Amendment written by United States Commission on Civil Rights and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Civil rights categories.

The Impact Of The Equal Rights Amendment

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985

The Impact Of The Equal Rights Amendment written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Equal rights amendments categories.

Equal Rights Amendment

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990

Equal Rights Amendment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Equal rights amendments categories.