[Dilbert San Diego]

What about time limits?

The 27th amendment was circulating for 200 years until enough states ratified in in 1992.

As noted a court would have to decide if the time limit given for ERA ratification is legally binding.

As well as the issue of states which had rescinded their ratification of ERA.

[hanamizu]

What about time limits?
The 27th amendment was circulating for 200 years until enough states ratified in in 1992.

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Congress started putting time limits on Amendments in the 20th century. States rushed to ratify ERA before studying the implications—same-sex bathrooms, homosexual “marriage”, the draft, etc. States stopped ratifying. Congress put a 3-year extension to get to 38. States started rescinding ratification (some say states can’t rescind). Time ran out again.

Don’t know how a court can rule that a clause in an amendment isn’t binding, but if our courts can rule that one President cannot cancel his predecessor’s E.O.s, who knows?

[Publius]

Congress put a 7 year ratification window on the ERA in 1972. When that window expired in 1979, Congress added 3 more years to the window, but Congress used the wrong form. Congress should have resubmitted the amendment proposal with a new window by getting two thirds of the House and Senate to resubmit it. Instead, Congress tried a traditional Act of Congress signed by the president. The federal courts slapped Congress on the wrist over this. As a result, the ratification window closed in 1979.

No further Supreme Court decisions are necessary. Dillon v. Gloss in 1921 settled the issue of Congress setting ratification windows.

Any further ratifications of the ERA and null and void. The Archivist of the United States will send all ratification letters back to the originating states with the explanation that the window has been closed for almost 40 years. Any and all further ratifications are nothing more than virtue signaling from liberal states.

The ERA is dead. RIP.

[ThanhPhero]

Some Amendments have time limits built into them. Others have no time limits in them. The ERA had a time limit.Passing it now in a state legislature is just another manifestation of effectless Virtue Signaling.

[Finalapproach29er]

The unwritten rule is a 7 year time limit. However, libs these days would do anything to get what they want.