Equal Rights Amendment Failure

He had to get the people to agree with his major ideas before promoting women’s rights. An example of this was his earlier works such as the Common Sense which did not have a stance in women’s rights. It would only be in his later works such as Rights of Man Part II where he would actually state the importance of women having equal rights to that of men; which included political rights and especially suffrage. Paine also supported the abolition of slavery, though he did not write anything that would influence the decision of abolishing slavery. But some might argue that he was the unknown author of African Slavery in America essay, however there is no further evidence to support this.

Stanton participated at World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 jointly with Garrison and she was denied to give an official speech due to her sex and requested to sit in back part a part from the view of present men. Although she had a huge support from men from the group, the other men abolitionist still opposed women’s participation in abolitionism. In 1848 in Seneca Falls Convention she drafted the Declaration of Sentiments modeled on the Declaration of Independence where she stressed the inferior status of women and demanded voting rights for women claiming that men and women are equal. The Declaration passed and thus represented a big step forward for gaining the civil, social, political, rights of women. She advocated for universal suffrage for white and black women and later she opposed to Frederick Douglas, who signed the Declaration of Sentiments but did not support the universal suffrage and thought that it is less important than black male suffrage.

First, some people may have different opinions about my argument. Until the ratification of the 19th Amendment, women could play limited roles in the society of United States, and there was nothing women could do politically and legally; men did not easily grant women any rights. Furthermore, it could be claimed that the adoption of the 19th Amendment was not because of the efforts and struggles of women to gain the voting rights, but because of the efforts of the government to have the support of the women during World War 1. Also, the 15th Amendment was useless which did not safeguard the African American people, and they had been suppressed for nearly 100 years. When you look at these areas, the voting right movements demonstrated that just how favorable the political system was for the advocates of the status quo and how long it took to reform.

Around 10 million adults alone in the United States as of 2017 consider themselves to be part of the LGBT community, these are 10 million adults who can be discriminated against, weather this is access to something as important as medical care or something as simple as a wedding cake for their wedding they can be refused access to this. In 1993 The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was passed in order to provide “stronger laws and enforcement for exercising religion” and so that it could play a valid part in our foreign policy; yet it is hardly used in our foreign policy and in some cases can cause more problems than solutions. This has become a national debate, even still today because of the obvious outcomes it could have regarding gay-marriage.

Also, women were not treated right , at the time men were bias to the idea of equality for women 's rights. Sojourner Truth was one of the very few women that stood up and contradicted mens ideas for women 's right and helped changed sexist points of view. Therefore , the Civil War redefined Americans perspective of equality, slavery, and women rights. The idea of equality has changed Americans way of thinking since the Civil War. For example in the Gettysburg Address it says 87 years ago America got its independence from britain, a new country made from the freedom of the people, and is committed to the idea that everyone is born similar (lincoln) Which means that 87 years ago America was founded and that in the preamble it states that all men are created equal.

The purpose of the first ten amendments to the Constitution (The Bill of Rights) is to delineate the rights of the American. Initially, it only protected Americans from the national government, but the Fourteenth Amendment made it to where the Bill of Rights applied to the states as well (Christiansen). Civil liberties have expanded greatly through the course of the United State’s history because of the ability for the interpretation of the law to change. Take suffrage for example; when the Constitution was first drafted, the only group that was eligible to vote was propertied white men. With time, other groups have been added to that list so that now the only requirements to vote are to be eighteen years old, be an American citizen, and not be a convicted felon.

Connecticut (1965). The Supreme Court ruled that the uses of contraceptives are banned because they violated the right to martial privacy. Married women were guaranteed the right to use contraceptives by the right to privacy. Although the use of contraceptives was not addressed for women outside of marriage, this still was leading to more progress in women rights. This case led on to the Eisenstadt v. Baird case in 1972.

Since this debate cannot be settled even by some great intellectuals, my intentions in writing this paper is nowhere near providing an answer to the reader regarding who the winner is. On the other hand, personal views backed by evidence will be presented throughout this paper. On the issue of marriage Becker puts the foundations of his theory about marriage on the assumptions that almost all the marriages are voluntary and people involving in marriage see a higher utility in being married than remaining single (Becker 1974, 300). First opposition to the basis of this theory can be made so simply that not all marriages are voluntary. For instance, in India (being one of the world’s largest populations), 90% of the marriages are arranged.

In the essay “What’s Wrong with Gay Marriage?” (2003), Katha Pollitt refutes all of the reasons why people think gay marriage is wrong. The author expounds on this argument by first showing that procreation is not a requirement for marriage because there are many straight married couples who don’t have children, the next argument that is refuted is that women domesticate men, but married men and un-married men still commit suicide and still do drugs so marriage won’t change that, and the final argument that was refuted was the argument made about historical marriages, but marriage has always been here and always will be and much of historical marriages polygyny was often as well as forced, arranged, and child marriage. By refuting

The dictionary stated that equality is “ the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability”. Some examples of equality would be Dr. Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous I have a dream speech on August 28,1963. Also there was a law passed to abolish slavery by Abraham Lincoln. In today’s time, the government pass the same sex marriage law to give equality to same sex marriage as they did to different sex marriage. In today’s society think about what if equality was not a law and consider what if there was no one to fight for equality in America.

I think ERA failed to pass because all 50 states did not supported ERA. ERA also failed to pass because “most people supported the idea of women’s rights in the abstract, but they weren’t sure what the consequences of such an amendment would be, and they feared the possibility of radical social change. “As book says that by early 1973, thirty states had approved ERA and also in next four, other five states also have approved ERA. Three states short of necessary, which bring to 38 states have

According to David Newton in “Same-Sex Marriage: Overview”, up until 1990, the controversy on same-sex marriage hardly existed, as people automatically shunned the idea. Marriage was between a man and a woman- that was all people knew, and all they wanted to know. However, in 1990, for the first time, 3 same-sex couples sued the state of Hawaii, hoping to gain the right of marriage. Instead, they received an amendment to Hawaii’s constitution banning same-sex marriage- the state’s quick, easy answer to the couples. And the struggle began from there, encompassing 25 years, innumerable lawsuits, and multiple hindering bans.

“Ever since the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) became a federal law in 1996, gay advocates have been trying to remove any restrictions from this law and pass same sex marriage as a whole.” (Examiner.com 2006-2015). These advocates wanted this law to pass not only within the state they reside in, but nationwide. During this time, same sex marriage was looked down upon. America is supposed to be the land of the free. How are we free if we can’t marry who we want?

The Bill of Rights were proposed to fix problems from a number of Constitutional delegate. They claimed that at the moment, the constitution had no laws giving rights to an individual citizen! A compromise was made that put the original Constitution in power, but they all knew they were going to put in amendment 's right after. Originally twelve amendments were tried, but only ten out of the twelve were approved by the three-fourths majority of state legislatures that were necessary to amend the Constitution. Many Americans take for granted everyday all of the rights the Bill of Rights gives to each and everyone of us.

After a number of attempts, the federal Dream Act legislation has still not passed. Despite the difficulty the federal government has had on passing the DREAM Act, several states have taken it on their own initiative to create their own version of the DREAM Act. “Currently, at least seventeen states have laws allowing students who meet specific requirements, regardless of their immigration status, to pay in-state tuition rates at public postsecondary institutions” (Table). Supporters believe the federal DREAM Act will impose significant benefits to both the United States and immigrant populations and will continue to push to get the legislation passed. However, those who oppose this legislation believe it would greatly harm our country