why did people criticize the equal rights amendment
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.