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From: garry@lasspvax.UUCP (Garry Wiegand)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: pornography, women, ERA
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Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 21:36:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 21:36:41 1985
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In a recent article mpr@mb2c.UUCP (Mark Reina) wrote:
>...   First, ERA would not
>significantly affect the rights of women.  There are already many laws on the
>books, both federal and state, that give women enforced equality with men.
>There is really nothing to be gained by a new Constitutional Amendment.
>...

During the debate over the original U.S. Constitution, a number of Federalists
tried to explain that there would be "nothing to be gained" by a "Bill of
Rights".

Fortunately, they were ignored.