Unnecessary. All that is required is to enforce the 14th and 19th Amendments.
When it appears to be necessary to create a new Amendment to enforce a previous Amendment the failure lies with those responsible for enforcement. Not with the prior Amendment.
The voters should act at the ballot box to replace those failed politicians.
Archivist of the United States David Ferriero wrote on October 25, 2012 to Representative Carolyn Maloney (NY), lead sponsor of the ERA in the House of Representatives, in response to her query about the validity of rescissions:
“NARA’s [National Archives and Records Administration’s] website page “The Constitutional Amendment Process” . . .states that a proposed Amendment becomes part of the Constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the states, indicating that Congressional action is not needed to certify that the Amendment has been added to the Constitution. It also states that [the U.S. Archivist’s] certification of the legal sufficiency of ratification documents is final and conclusive, and that a later rescission of a state’s ratification is not accepted as valid.”
These statements are derived from 1 U.S.C. 106b . . . : “Whenever official notice is received at the National Archives and Records Administration that any amendment proposed to the Constitution of the United States has been adopted, according to the provisions of the Constitution, the Archivist of the United States shall forthwith cause the amendment to be published, with his certificate, specifying the States by which the same may have been adopted, and that the same has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United States. . . . [O]nce NARA receives at least 38 state ratifications of a proposed Constitutional Amendment, NARA publishes the amendment along with a certification of the ratifications and it becomes part of the Constitution without further action by Congress. Once the process in 1 U.S.C. 106b is completed the Amendment becomes part of the Constitution and cannot be rescinded. Another Constitutional Amendment would be needed to abolish the new Amendment.
bxclent Premium Member over 4 years ago
time to resubmit and try again – https://www.equalrightsamendment.org/
Andylit Premium Member over 4 years ago
Unnecessary. All that is required is to enforce the 14th and 19th Amendments.
When it appears to be necessary to create a new Amendment to enforce a previous Amendment the failure lies with those responsible for enforcement. Not with the prior Amendment.
The voters should act at the ballot box to replace those failed politicians.
bakana over 4 years ago
The problem is that the dipshit party has taken over too much of the Country.
bakana over 4 years ago
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Archivist of the United States David Ferriero wrote on October 25, 2012 to Representative Carolyn Maloney (NY), lead sponsor of the ERA in the House of Representatives, in response to her query about the validity of rescissions:
“NARA’s [National Archives and Records Administration’s] website page “The Constitutional Amendment Process” . . .states that a proposed Amendment becomes part of the Constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the states, indicating that Congressional action is not needed to certify that the Amendment has been added to the Constitution. It also states that [the U.S. Archivist’s] certification of the legal sufficiency of ratification documents is final and conclusive, and that a later rescission of a state’s ratification is not accepted as valid.”
These statements are derived from 1 U.S.C. 106b . . . : “Whenever official notice is received at the National Archives and Records Administration that any amendment proposed to the Constitution of the United States has been adopted, according to the provisions of the Constitution, the Archivist of the United States shall forthwith cause the amendment to be published, with his certificate, specifying the States by which the same may have been adopted, and that the same has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United States. . . . [O]nce NARA receives at least 38 state ratifications of a proposed Constitutional Amendment, NARA publishes the amendment along with a certification of the ratifications and it becomes part of the Constitution without further action by Congress. Once the process in 1 U.S.C. 106b is completed the Amendment becomes part of the Constitution and cannot be rescinded. Another Constitutional Amendment would be needed to abolish the new Amendment.