Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) the “law of the land” on Friday, January 17. Congress first passed the amendment back in the 70s, but it failed to be ratified by the required 38 states until decades after the deadline had passed. When Virginia became the 38th state to ratify in 2020, however, the left rejoiced. Unfortunately for them, ratifying the ERA more than forty years after its deadline doesn’t make it legitimate.
Just shy of 12,000 constitutional amendments have been proposed since the original document took effect in 1789. Of those, Congress has approved a mere 33 – and just 27 have then been ratified by the required number of states. Or so that’s what the official history of America tells us – and there’s the rub. Some – like Biden – claim to believe an alternate version of history in which a 28th Amendment…
