What is the actual text of the document that Biden claims in now part of the Constitution?
How can the ERA Amendment be a part of the Constitution when part of it is already violated if it is treated as if it were law? Since has taken over 7 years to get the states' ratification, then it violates itself. If Congress alters it after the fact, then it has to re-voted upon. It hasn't. So what version of the amendment gets included in the Constitution? Clearly not the one that many of the states voted upon before.
3:26 PM:
Wait a minute. I re-read that Wikipedia entry. The article's text was submitted along with a resolution, whose term length was seven years. It has been lengthened, but some states rescinded their approval. The point may still hold, as the resolution was part of the process. If the process of ratification was deemed to be seven years, then it should be included with the text of the amendment itself. I believe some amendments to the Constitution included that time-limited text in the amendment language.
There's a reason for putting a time limit on it. Otherwise, why have one in the resolution accompanying the amendment itself? If the idea is to get tricky, so as to get initial approval, and then moving the goalposts in order to overcome opposition, should that be allowed?
In any case, the time limits have expired. Now they want to make the time limits go away so that they can claim ratification. If the Congress can change the goal posts, then the states can rescind their approval. Still, no dice on the ERA.
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