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Equal Rights Amendment

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Enough states have ratified the ERA. Does that mean it's part of the Constitution?

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On March 22, 1972 , the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment , sending it to the states for ratification.

So far, 38 states have ratified the amendment, meeting the constitutional threshold ( three-quarters ) for it to be enshrined in the Constitution .

Alice Paul drafted the first version of the amendment in 1923 , three years after women were granted the right to vote.

The Alice Paul Center's position is that the Equal Rights Amendment , now ratified by 38 states, is the law of the land.

But that is not the position of the federal government.

A 2020 memo from the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel said "the ERA thus failed to secure the necessary ratifications within either of Congress ’s deadlines".

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