Full Text of HJR0020 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, In 1972, the Ninety-second Congress of the United | 3 | | States of America, at its Second Session, in both houses, by a | 4 | | constitutional majority of two-thirds, adopted the following | 5 | | proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States of | 6 | | America: | 7 | | "JOINT RESOLUTION RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF | 8 | | REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | 9 | | IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED (TWO-THIRDS OF EACH HOUSE CONCURRING | 10 | | THEREIN), That the following article is proposed as an | 11 | | amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which | 12 | | shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the | 13 | | Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of | 14 | | three-fourths of the several States within seven years | 15 | | from the date of its submission by the Congress: | 16 | | "ARTICLE ______ | 17 | | Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall | 18 | | not be denied or abridged by the United States or by | 19 | | any State on account of sex. | 20 | | Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to | 21 | | enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of | 22 | | this article. | 23 | | Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two | 24 | | years after the date of ratification.""; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Article V of the Constitution of the United | 2 | | States sets forth a two-step amending procedure; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, The first step of the Article V amending | 4 | | procedure is proposal of an amendment either by two-thirds | 5 | | vote of both houses of Congress or by a convention called by | 6 | | application of two-thirds of the States; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The second and final step of the Article V | 8 | | amending procedure is ratification of an amendment by | 9 | | three-fourths of the States; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, The Constitution of the United States does not | 11 | | limit the time for States to ratify an amendment; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, The time limit within the internal resolution | 13 | | used by Congress in 1972 to propose the Equal Rights Amendment | 14 | | is, thus, without force or effect; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, The so-called Madison Amendment, relating to | 16 | | Compensation of Members of Congress, is the Twenty-Seventh | 17 | | Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, In 1789, by two-thirds vote of each house of the | 19 | | First Congress, the Madison Amendment completed the proposal | 20 | | step of Article V; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Approximately 203 years later, the Madison | 2 | | Amendment completed the ratification step of Article V through | 3 | | ratification by three-fourths of the States; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, In 1992, having met the requirements of Article | 5 | | V, the Madison Amendment was published and certified by the | 6 | | Administration of President George H.W. Bush as the | 7 | | Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United | 8 | | States; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Following publication of the Madison Amendment, | 10 | | Congress affirmed the Madison Amendment as the Twenty-Seventh | 11 | | Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, As of January 27, 2020, three-fourths of the | 13 | | States have ratified the Equal Rights Amendment; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, In contrast to the Madison Amendment which took | 15 | | 203 years to ratify, the Equal Rights Amendment took a mere 48 | 16 | | years to ratify; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, The Equal Rights Amendment now meets the | 18 | | requirements of Article V of the Constitution of the United | 19 | | States to be added as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment; therefore, | 20 | | be it
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 2 | | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | 3 | | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the General Assembly urges the | 4 | | Administration of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. to publish | 5 | | and certify without delay the Equal Rights Amendment as the | 6 | | Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United | 7 | | States; and be it further
| 8 | | RESOLVED, That the General Assembly urges the Congress of | 9 | | the United States to pass a joint resolution, affirming the | 10 | | Equal Rights Amendment as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the | 11 | | Constitution of the United States; and be it further
| 12 | | RESOLVED, That the General Assembly calls on other States | 13 | | to join in this action by passing the same or similar | 14 | | resolutions; and be it further | 15 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 16 | | transmitted to the President and Vice President of the United | 17 | | States, to Members of the United States Congress, and to the | 18 | | Archivist of the United States.
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