Word: rescindability
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Equal Rights Amendment. Carter supported extending the deadline for ratifying the ERA by 39 months and opposed allowing states to rescind previous votes to ratify the amendment. After intense lobbying by women on both sides of the issue, Congress agreed...
...Senate indicated in a key vote yesterday it will probably extend the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment by deciding that states that approved the ERA cannot use the additional time to rescind their vote...
...Kentucky readily ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. But last week, after a noisy debate, state representatives voted 61 to 28 to change their minds, making Kentucky the fourth state to rescind approval of the amendment that would ban discrimination on the basis of sex. Some constitutional experts doubt that a legislature can legally have second thoughts about ratification. Nonetheless, the vote in Kentucky was another sign that the ERA is in deep trouble, even though it has been approved by 35 states, three short of the number needed to make it part of the Constitution...
...formation of the Student Committee on University Priorities (SCOUP) that could veto and rescind all decisions that affect all students...
...vacation in 1976, Dean Fox proposed to take freshmen away from the Quad. "Here we go again," was the reaction of North House resident Robert Sapolsky '78. "For three years the annual assault on the Quad was timed during vacation, reading period, or exams." In previous years, attempts to rescind the 1:1 ratio and to institute the "1-1-2 Plan" (freshmen in the Quad, sophomores in the Yard, and others at the River) met with widespread undergraduate resistance...