http://ziphstric.com/blog/archives/2005/02/25/ratified-amendments/ and other exclamations by the accidental taoist Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:39:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 http://ziphstric.com/blog/archives/2005/02/25/ratified-amendments/#comment-572 Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:43:17 -0800 http://ziphstric.com/blog/archives/2005/02/25/ratified-amendments/#comment-572 The answer is yes. There were plenty of proposed amendments along the way which passed Congress but didn't get two thirds of the states to agree within a ten-year span. The last one, I think, may have been the <a href="http://www.now.org/issues/economic/eratext.html" rel="nofollow">Equal Rights Amendment</a> in the 70s, which would have forbidden discrimination on the basis of gender. The answer is yes. There were plenty of proposed amendments along the way which passed Congress but didn’t get two thirds of the states to agree within a ten-year span. The last one, I think, may have been the Equal Rights Amendment in the 70s, which would have forbidden discrimination on the basis of gender.

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