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Why ERA failed : politics, women's rights, and the amending process of the constitution

Analysis of the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment. Also reviews other unsuccessful and successful efforts to amend the Constitution
Print Book, English, ©1986
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©1986
ix, 147 pages ; 25 cm.
9780253365378, 9780253204592, 0253365376, 0253204593
13094190
The early history of the constitutional amendment process
Adopting an income tax : the Sixteenth Amendment
Generating an artificial consensus : Prohibition and its repeal
Gaining woman suffrage : the Nineteenth Amendment
Social reform between the wars : losing the Child Labor Amendment
ERA : approval and early ratification campaigns
ERA : extension, rescission, and failure
Legal developments in the courts and in the states : the brooding omnipresence of ERA
Losing consensus in the Congress