The Equal Rights Amendment is dead. Not, as Miracle Max put it in “The Princess Bride,” “mostly dead,” but “all dead.” ERA advocates, however, just won’t let it rest in peace.
Forty-six Senate Democrats have written President Joe Biden, asking that he help perpetuate the ERA myth even as he leaves office, requesting that he “direct the archivist of the United States to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the 28th Amendment …” It won’t work.
Let’s first get the Civics 101 lesson out of the way. Article V of the Constitution provides that two-thirds of the House and Senate can propose a constitutional amendment, which becomes part of the Constitution “when ratified by … three-fourths of the several states.”
Congress proposes an amendment by passing a resolution that has two parts. The first is a procedural clause that…
