WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that's unlikely ...

Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972, and subsequently enacted a law extending that deadline to 10 years. But by 1982, only 35 states had ratified. Since then, three more states ...

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 ...

Congress was given the power to enforce the amendment by appropriate legislation. Ratified in 1865, Amendment XIII’s language is clear: Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ...

Had three-quarters of states ratified this proposal, it would have become the 13th Amendment to the Constitution — which we know today as the amendment that banned slavery after the war.