Equal Rights: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. J. Res. 39, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women. April 11 and 13, 1956U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 79 pages |
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Page 63 - Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress and the several States shall have power, within their respective jurisdictions, to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Page 44 - to awaken consumers' interest in their responsibility for conditions under which goods are made and distributed; and through investigation, education, and legislation, to promote fair labor standards.
Page 63 - If anything about this proposed amendment is clear, it is that it would transform every provision of law concerning women into a constitutional issue to be ultimately resolved by the Supreme Court of the United States. Every statutory and common law provision dealing with the manifold relation of women in society would be forced to run the gauntlet of attack on constitutional grounds. The range of such potential litigation is too great to be readily foreseen...
Page 54 - The rider provides that the amendment "shall not be construed to impair any rights, benefits, or exemptions now or hereafter conferred by law upon persons of the female sex.
Page 49 - Presumably, the amendment would set up a constitutional yardstick of absolute equality between men and women in all legal relationships. A more flexible view, permitting reasonable differentiation, can hardly be regarded as the object of the proposal, since the fourteenth amendment has long provided that no State shall deny to any person the equal protection of the laws, and that amendment permits reasonable classifications while prohibiting arbitrary legal discrimination.
Page 15 - Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank you and the committee for giving me this opportunity to testify before you.
Page 63 - Every statutory and common law provision dealing with the manifold relation of women in society would be forced to run the gauntlet of attack on constitutional grounds. The range of such potential litigation is too great to be readily foreseen, but it would certainly embrace such diverse legal provisions as those relating...
Page 25 - ... Sorority. Ladies Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars. Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. League for American Working Women. Liberation Movement of Women. Mary Ball Washington Association of America. National Association of Colored Women. National Association of Women Deans and Counselors. National Association of Women Lawyers. National Council of Women Chiropractors. National Education Association (NEA).
Page 25 - Clubs. National Women's Party. Osteopathic Women's National Association. Peoples Mandate Committee. Society of American Poets. Wheel of Progress. Women's Auxiliary to American Osteopathic Association. Women's Auxiliary to the National Chiropractic Association. Women's Circle, Woodmen of the World. Women's International Association of Aeronautics. Women's National Relief Corps Auxiliary to the GAR. On pages 46-47, a letter addressed to the Secretary of Labor lists the following national organizations...
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