renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (10/03/84)
Here is the text of the joint resolution of Congress known as the
Equal Rights Amendment, submitted to the States on March 22, 1972:
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Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring
therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and
purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of
the several States within seven years from the date of its submission by
the Congress:
ARTICLE (?)
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 amendemnt shall take effect two years after the date
of ratification.
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Scott Renner
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