>
> The ERA went down at least partially because the
> Supreme Court made it
> partially unneeded with a series of decisions
> striking down discriminatory
> laws. In a lot of ways, the ERA was killed more by
> liberalism in the court
> than conservative opposition.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
There is good study of this, Why We Lost the ERA, by, who, Mansbridge(?) NWU Polisci, as I recall. I read it years ago, but I forget what she concluded. Did she agree with this view? jks
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