Instructions
For the initial post, respond to one of the following options, and label the beginning of your post indicating either Option 1 or Option 2:
- Option 1: The Equal Rights Amendment was first proposed almost a century ago and has still not been added to the United States Constitution. It is supposed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It was first introduced to Congress by Alice Paul, leader of women’s suffrage movement in 1923. Compare/contrast the Equal Rights Amendment with the Fourteenth Amendment. Did they deal with separate concepts? Explain your answer.
- Option 2: The Bill of Rights is not only included with the United States Constitution but also state constitutions. All states have provisions in their constitutions that protect individual rights. Go online and look up your state constitution concerning amendments that are included in the Bill of Rights. How does your state constitution protect your individual rights?
Be sure to make connections between your ideas and conclusions and the research, concepts, terms, and theory we are discussing this week.
Answer
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), authored by Alice Paul, a legendary activist, alongside other activists such as Crystal Eastman in 1923, prohibits the federal government as well as the state governments from denying people equality of rights based on sex (Andrias, 2022). Therefore, including the ERA into the Constitution would be a clear message with regard to the national commitment to inherent equality for all individuals and would strengthen the idea that sex discrimination is not consistent with the significant core value of equal protection ….. To access full answer, click on the purchase button below.