Is the ERA part of the Constitution?
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The Amendment Process Is Difficult
The states, at least in each of these cases, claimed that they recended, and the recisions were not recognized. So i think we've got a strong historical basis that precisions were not, were never really permitted. The framers really viewed the constitution as something that we very much could and should be able to amend. And so the idea of making it so difficult by virtue of allowing states to recind and ratify and recind and a makes the process much more difficult than than the framers are ever invisioned.
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