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Remarks: The Constitutional Status Of Human Rights Here And Abroad, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Remarks: The Constitutional Status Of Human Rights Here And Abroad, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Antioch Law Journal
Many people here this evening have worked diligently to add to the Constitution an explicit guarantee of the equality of men and women before the law. I would like to present a few preliminary comments on that subject, and to tie it to the main line of my remarks about the constitutional status of human rights here and abroad. It is a disappointment, of course, that the ERA ratification effort has not succeeded this time around, but ours is a Constitution that is hard to amend and hardly ever amended. It is also a Constitution enforced in courts; and therefore, …