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Posts Tagged: Spousal Elections
1 ResultsThe Rights of a Surviving Spouse – Spousal Election
by: Justin de Vries, July 6, 2020
I just finished watching Mrs. America, the recent TV series that chronicles the fight by women in the 1970s to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the US Constitution. First proposed in 1921, the ERA sought to mandate equality between men and woman. In 1972, Congress passed the ERA, but they could not obtain…read more