Editing Equal Rights Amendment (section)

=== Sunsetting ratifications ===
==== South Dakota (pre-1979 deadline) ====
Among those rejecting Congress's claim to even hold authority to extend a previously established ratification deadline, the [[South Dakota Legislature]] adopted Senate Joint Resolution No. 2 on March 1, 1979. The joint resolution stipulated that South Dakota's 1973 ERA ratification would be [[Sunset provision|"sunsetted"]] as of the original deadline, March 22, 1979. South Dakota's 1979 sunset joint resolution declared: "the Ninety-fifth Congress ex post facto has sought unilaterally to alter the terms and conditions in such a way as to materially affect the congressionally established time period for ratification" (designated as "POM-93" by the U.S. Senate and published verbatim in the ''[[Congressional Record]]'' of March 13, 1979, at pages 4861 and 4862).<ref>{{USCongRec|1979|4861}}</ref>

The action on the part of South Dakota lawmakers—occurring 21 days prior to originally agreed-upon deadline of March 22, 1979—could be viewed as slightly different from a rescission.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rutgerslaw.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/03_Magliocca.pdf|title=Buried Alive: The Reboot of the Equal Rights Amendment|last=Magliocca|first=Gerald N.|date=June 22, 2018|publisher=[[Rutgers University Law Review]]|pages=654–655|access-date=July 10, 2020}}</ref> [[The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation|''Constitution Annotated'']] notes that "[f]our states had rescinded their ratifications [of the ERA] and a fifth had declared that its ratification would be void unless the amendment was ratified within the original time limit", with a footnote identifying South Dakota as that "fifth" state.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artV_1_2/|title=ArtV.1.2 Proposing a Constitutional Amendment|last=Library of Congress|website=Constitution Annotated|access-date=2020-01-17|archive-date=November 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127044136/https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artV_1_2/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==== North Dakota (post-1979 deadline) ====
On March 19, 2021, [[North Dakota Legislative Assembly|North Dakota state lawmakers]] adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 4010 to retroactively clarify that North Dakota's 1975 ratification of the ERA was valid only through "11:59 p.m. on March 22, 1979" and went on to proclaim that North Dakota "should not be counted by Congress, the Archivist of the United States, lawmakers in any other state, any court of law, or any other person, as still having on record a live ratification of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States as was offered by House Joint Resolution No. 208 of the 92nd Congress on March 22, 1972".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/67-2021/bill-actions/ba4010.html|title=Bill Actions for SCR 4010|publisher=North Dakota Legislative Council|location=Bismarck, North Dakota|access-date=March 31, 2021|archive-date=April 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423150705/https://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/67-2021/bill-actions/ba4010.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The resolution was formally received by the U.S. Senate on April 20, 2021, was designated as "POM-10", was referred to the Senate's Judiciary Committee, and its full and complete verbatim text was published at page S2066 of the ''Congressional Record''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/117/crec/2021/04/20/167/68/CREC-2021-04-20-pt1-PgS2065.pdf#page=2|title=Congressional Record — Senate|date=April 20, 2021}}</ref>