KAREN COOKSON: The ERA era
It has been 100 years since the Equal Rights Amendment was introduced in 1923. So where is it now?
Good question.
Check out YouTube’s site on ERA.
You will be amazed at the skills in Congress at stalling, negating, discouraging and just plain messing with the will of the people, particularly women.
What can we do?
This next year marks a quarter of a millennium, 250 years, since the 1776 date giving our nation its independence.
Our Constitution, ratified a dozen years later, codified the principles and rights that were claimed in the Declaration of Independence.
Many amendments to the Constitution have since tightened that document. But this particular one concerning women’s rights seems to have a special hex on it.
My computer even acts crazy when I write about it, like........
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