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Current legal status The deadline for ratification of the ERA—whether that deadline was provides the constitutional rationale for the "3-state strategy" and the Library Of Congress has issued a Report suggesting that this theory is at least worthy of serious consideration. Polls show that a majority of Americans continue to support the ERA, and efforts to introduce ERA ratification resolutions—in the legislatures of those fifteen states which never ratified the measure—have increased in recent years. At the Federal level, supporters of the ERA have re-introduced the amendment in Congress {Link without Title} every term since 1982 without success. Regardless, the national debate on the ERA has largely subsided, in part because of expanded interpretations of existing statutes and constitutional provisions. |
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