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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
                     HOUSE CONCURRENT
                      RESOLUTION NO. 33
                            102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
                         INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE JOHNSON (12).
    4853H.01I                                                      DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk


                                            AN ACT
    Relating to the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution.


    Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            WHEREAS, three years after women won the right to vote, the Equal Rights
 2 Amendment to the United States Constitution, authored by Alice Paul, head of the National
 3 Woman's Party, was introduced in Congress by Senator Charles Curtis and Representative
 4 Daniel Anthony, both Republicans; and
 5
 6          WHEREAS, the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution passed
 7 the United States Senate and then the United States House of Representatives, and on March
 8 22, 1972, the proposed amendment to the United States Constitution was sent to the states for
 9 ratification; and
10
11          WHEREAS, the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution states:
12
13          "Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the
14 United States or by any state on account of sex.
15
16 Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the
17 provisions of this article."; and
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19          WHEREAS, Congress placed a deadline of June 30, 1982, on the ratification process
20 and thirty-five states ratified the proposed amendment before the deadline; and
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22          WHEREAS, Congress may not have the constitutional authority to place a deadline
23   on the ratification process; and
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25           WHEREAS, Article V of the United States Constitution allows the General Assembly
26   of the State of Missouri to ratify this proposed amendment to the United States Constitution;
27   and
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29          WHEREAS, the General Assembly of the State of Missouri finds that the proposed
30   amendment is meaningful and needed as part of the United States Constitution and that the
31   present political, social, and economic conditions are the same as or even more demanding
32   today than they were when the proposed amendment was first submitted for adoption:
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34          NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the House of
35   Representatives of the One Hundred Second General Assembly, Second Regular Session, the
36   Senate concurring therein, hereby ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States
37   Constitution; and
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39          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of
40   Representatives be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for the
41   Archivist of the United States, Washington, D.C.; the Vice President of the United States; the
42   Speaker of the United States House of Representatives; and each member of the Missouri
43   Congressional Delegation with a request that it be printed in the Congressional Record.
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