In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment, designed to guarantee protection against sexual discrimination for women under the law, passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the individual states for ...

the 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.” Biden administration picks 15 more drugs for Medicare ...

The amendment, which was passed by Congress in 1972, enshrines equal rights for women. An amendment to the Constitution requires three-quarters of states, or 38, to ratify it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that’s ...

Ironically, the very same amendment that was written to ensure equal rights for African Americans now provides a mechanism to make them second-class citizens. In many states, tens of thousands of ...

The amendment has the same sentiment of the ill-fated Equal Rights Amendment, which proposed the same protections for the U.S. Constitution. This amendment would codify personhood in Tennessee ...

As Garrett Epps puts it in Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, “for the first time in American history, the [Fourteenth ...

In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment, designed to guarantee protection against sexual discrimination for women under the law, passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the individual states for ...