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Volume 9: Issue 1
The Equal Rights Amendment: Back for an Encore Performance?
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The ERA is back—or, at least, so we are told. On March 27, 2007, a group of Congressional Democrats—including Senators Edward Kennedy and Barbara Boxer and Representatives Carolyn Maloney and James Leach—announced with great fanfare a renewed eff ort to pass the formerly-defunct proposal. “Elections have consequences, and isn’t it true those consequences are good right now?” Senator Boxer asked a cheering audience of ERA supporters at the Capitol Hill press conference....