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 ...

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.

Political debate around the ERA has ramped up in Biden's final months in office. President Joe Biden on Friday said the Equal Right Amendment should be considered ratified, but is stopping short ...