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RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENTWHEREAS, _______ County forthrightly supports equal rights for the citizens of ________ County; and WHEREAS, the United States Constitution does not explicitly guarantee that all rights that it protects are held equally by all citizens without regard to sex; and WHEREAS, the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause has never been interpreted to guarantee equal rights for women in the same way the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) would, by situating sex as a suspect category invoking strict judicial scrutiny, just as race, national origin and religion do; and WHEREAS, state laws are not uniform and federal laws are not comprehensive; additionally, these laws can be repealed or reduced; and WHEREAS, the Amendment would help correct systemic sex discrimination; and WHEREAS, Congress can alter time limits in the proposing clauses of amendments; and the deadline for the ERA appeared only in the preamble and not in the actual legislation; WHEREAS, Senator Floyd B. McKissick, Jr. and Representative Carla Cunningham introduced ERA ratification bills in the NC General Assembly in the 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019 (SB184 and H271) sessions; andWHEREAS, US Representative Jackie Speier introduced a resolution (H.J. Res. 38) and US Senators Benjamin Cardin and Lisa Murkowski co-sponsored a resolution (S.J. Res. 6) in the 116th Congress to lift the time limits on the states for ratifying the ERA;THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that ________ County supports ratifying the ERA to the United States Constitution as proposed by Congress on March 22, 1972 stating: Section 1: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex Section 2: The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article Section 3: This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratificationADOPTED this date the day of 201__ _______________________________ Signature ................
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