Equal Rights Amendments: State Provisions
Description:
Twenty states adopted state equal rights amendments between 1879 and 1998. The texts of most of these amendments either are similar to the proposed federal amendment or restate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The timing of the enactment of these state amendments and the choice of wording reflect both the ebb and flow of the women's movement in the United States and the political culture of the particular states at the time of passage. A brief hi…
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Date:
August 23, 2004
Creator:
Gladstone, Leslie W.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department