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This Concurrent Resolution urges the President of the United States to officially publish the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the Twenty-eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, arguing that it has met the constitutional requirements for amendment, specifically that enough states have ratified it. The resolution emphasizes that the ERA, which states that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex, was proposed by Congress in 1972. It contends that any time limits placed on ratification were not part of the amendment's text and therefore are not legally binding, unlike other amendments where time limits were included within the amendment itself and ratified by the states. The resolution also calls on Congress to affirm the ERA as the Twenty-eighth Amendment and encourages other states to pass similar resolutions.

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