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The Ohio Ballot Board changed a proposed constitutional amendment that would provide equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community, ...
Amendment proponents want to wipe Ohio’s marriage equality ban from the books in anticipation of attempts to overturn ...
Petitioners of an Equal Rights Amendment cleared the hurdle to start collecting signatures to be on the November 2026 ballot ...
A grassroots group suffered a setback Wednesday in its effort to put an equal rights amendment on the ballot in Ohio.
COLUMBUS — Republicans on the Ohio Ballot Board split a proposed amendment to enshrine equal rights in the state constitution ...
Republicans on the Ohio Ballot Board ruled to split a proposed constitutional amendment into two parts on Wednesday, making petitioners’ process much more difficult, Mary Frances McGowan reports. The ...
This week Illinois lawmakers approved the Equal Rights Amendment, a long-proposed addition to the United States Constitution that would ensure equal rights to all Americans regardless of sex. You ...
The Equal Rights Amendment was written by Alice Paul (1885-1977), the founder of the National Woman’s Party.
Understanding the state of the Equal Rights Amendment depends on who you ask. Backers of the ERA say it went into effect as of January 27, having met all the constitutional requirements, and ...
But the Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923 by suffragists Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman, was never ratified. You can in part thank Phyllis Schlafly , who's portrayed by Cate Blanchett ...
Last week, the Senate held a vote on the Equal Rights Amendment — the latest development in a century-long effort to amend the Constitution to explicitly guarantee sex equality.
Fourth, Equal Rights Amendment activists like to point out that the 27th Amendment, the most recent addition to the Constitution, was proposed in 1789 but not finally ratified until May 1992.