By the time that the Equal Rights Amendment was passed in the 1970s it was pointed out that the document would simply be a redundant amendment to the Constitution - everything that it called for was already guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
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Click here to read a 1948 article about the Equal Rights Amendment...