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strategery blunder

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2. We hope.
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 04:51 PM
Mar 2016

Recent amendments have stipulated a seven-year time limit for ratification. The Equal Rights Amendment essentially timed out because it contained such a time limit.

However, the Constitution itself does not place a time limit on the ratification process. These time limits for ratification only started appearing in the last century or so.

If ALEC and cronies did manage to get a convention, there's nothing to force them to impose a time limit that would allow us to "run out the clock" on ratification.

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