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* ERA states that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Approved by Congress and sent to the states for ratification on March 22, 1972.

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"Resolved, That the women of this country ought to be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want." Adopted by delegates at the Seneca Falls Meeting July 19, 1848.

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Then in 1983 during the Supreme Court hearing on the Bob Jones University race discrimination case, Justice Powell asked Black civil rights leader William T. Coleman, Jr. whether his 14th Amendment argument applied to sex as well as to race. Without hesitation, Coleman snapped back, "No. We didn't fight a Civil War over sex discrimination and we didn't pass a constitutional amendment against it."

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