Linda From Maine wrote:
Also, "The U.S. Constitution contains no time limit for ratification of constitutional amendments. From 1909 to 1913, the new amendment was ratified by the required thirty-six states out of the then forty-eight."
I'm not sure what this comment, "failed to be ratified, twice" is about, or how it pertains to the topic.
The Supreme Court has ruled that an amendment must be passed within a "suitably contemporaneous time," but indicated that Congress should indicate what that time frame should be. In the case of the ERA, Congress had set one deadline but then extended it before it ultimately failed.
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