HF 2026

as introduced - 92nd Legislature (2021 - 2022) Posted on 02/08/2022 11:53am

A resolution
relating to ratification of the proposed Equal Next Previous Rights Next Previous Amendment Next to the United States
Constitution; memorializing Congress to remove the extra-textual time limit for
ratification of the Previous amendment Next by the states.

WHEREAS, the United States Constitution does not explicitly guarantee that all the Previous rights Next
it protects are held equally by all citizens without regard to sex and the only right it specifically
affirms to be Previous equal Next for women and men is the right to vote in the 19th Previous Amendment Next ; and

WHEREAS, the 14th Previous Amendment Next 's Previous equal Next protection clause has not been interpreted to
guarantee Previous equal Next Previous rights Next on the basis of sex in the same way the Previous Equal Next Previous Rights Next Previous Amendment Next would, as
demonstrated by the fact that currently cases of sex discrimination receive only intermediate scrutiny
but should receive the highest level of strict judicial scrutiny, just as race discrimination does; and

WHEREAS, gender equality under the constitution continues to be timely in the United States
and worldwide, and a number of other nations have achieved constitutional gender equality; and

WHEREAS, the principle of gender equality is contained in the Charter of the United Nations,
the Universal Declaration of Human Previous Rights Next , and all subsequent major international human Previous rights Next
instruments, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW), which has been ratified by 187 other nations; and

WHEREAS, citizens of the United States have been seeking full constitutional equality on
the basis of sex since the Previous Equal Next Previous Rights Next Previous Amendment Next was first introduced in 1923; and

WHEREAS, the Previous Equal Next Previous Rights Next Previous Amendment Next was passed by Congress in 1972 and later ratified
by 38 of the 38 states necessary for inclusion of the Previous amendment Next into the constitution; and

WHEREAS, Article V of the United States Constitution imposes no time limit for ratification
of amendments; and

WHEREAS, state Previous Equal Next Previous Rights Next Previous Amendment Next ratification votes since 1972 must be considered
sufficiently contemporaneous, given that the Archivist of the United States certified the Madison
(27th) Previous Amendment Next on May 18, 1992, once three-fourths of the states had ratified it, even though
that Previous amendment Next was passed by the first Congress of the United States and had a ratification period
lasting 203 years; and

WHEREAS, the extra-textual time limit for ratification of the Previous Equal Next Previous Rights Next Previous Amendment Next is
in the proposing clause and is not a part of the Previous amendment Next that has already been ratified by 38
states; and

WHEREAS, Congress is empowered to alter time limits in the proposing clauses of
amendments and has done so once already for the Previous Equal Next Previous Rights Next Previous Amendment Next , when it passed a time
extension on October 20, 1978; and

WHEREAS, the Previous Equal Next Previous Rights Next Previous Amendment Next will finally ensure that all citizens will have Previous equal Next
Previous rights Next under the United States Constitution, without regard to sex; and

WHEREAS, the Previous Equal Next Previous Rights Next Previous Amendment Next was ratified by the Legislature of the State of
Minnesota on February 12, 1973; and

WHEREAS, the people of Minnesota are not willing to wait another 245 years for gender
equality; NOW, THEREFORE,

BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of the State of Minnesota calls on the Congress of
the United States to enact Senate Joint Resolution 1 or House Joint Resolution 17, proposed at the
117th Congress of the United States, or similar legislation, to remove the deadline for ratification
of the Previous Equal Next Previous Rights Amendments by the states; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislature of the State of Minnesota calls on other
states to join in this action by passing the same or similar resolutions; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State of the State of Minnesota is directed
to prepare copies of this memorial and transmit them to the President of the United States, the
President and the Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and the Clerk of the United
States House of Representatives, and Minnesota's Senators and Representatives in Congress.