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Congressional Digest March 2019 No. 3 Vol. 98
Honorable Sam Ervin

Gender Equality in the Constitution

The Ongoing Equal Rights Amendment Debate

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Honorable Sam Ervin

United States Senator, North Carolina, Democrat

Senator Ervin served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1946 to 1947 and in the U.S. Senate from 1954 to 1974. He was Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1948 to 1954. The following is from the March 20, 1972, Senate floor debate on H.J. Res. 208, the Equal Rights Amendment. I have had a number of conversations with militants of the extreme wing of women’s lib. They have been unable to convince me that God made a mistake when He created two sexes instead of one, and that the most effective way to repair this…

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