Ruth Bader Ginsburg On The One Thing That's Missing From The Constitution

The Notorious RBG is right on the money with this one.

onSeptember 13, 2019 at 3:15 PMSeptember 13, 2019 at 12:56 PM

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)

An equal rights amendment. I turn to my Constitution. I have three granddaughters. I can point to the First Amendment protecting their freedom of speech but I can’t point to anything that says men and women are of equal stature before the law. I would like to say to my grandchildren that equal status of men and women is a fundamental premise of our system. I was a proponent of the equal rights amendment. I hope someday it will be put back in the political hopper and we’ll be starting over again collecting the necessary states to ratify it.

— Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in response to a first-year student at Georgetown Law, upon being asked what the one thing she’d add to the Constitution would be if it were possible for her to do so.

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