what amendment states equal rights
The ERA in the States. The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress on March 22, 1972 and sent to the states for ratification by both houses of their state legislatures. A proposed amendment becomes part of the Constitution when approved by three-fourths (38) of the 50 states.During the next five years, 35 states approved the amendment.PRINGFIELD -- More than 40 years after it passed Congress and 30 years after the 'Equal Rights Amendment' lapsed after failing to get 38 states needed to ratify it, three state Representatives are introducing a bill to have Illinois ratify it.
What the ERA Says. The text of the Equal Rights Amendment is: 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.n 1923, Alice Paul wrote the  Lucretia Mott Amendment, which said, Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.. It was introduced annually in Congress for many years. In the 1940s, she rewrote the amendment.