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There were quite a few Asians (Chinese), there were quite a few blacks (freedmen) and everybody outside of the gentile class had ready access to guns; it is the second amendment you know.

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In a country which had just gone through this wrenching crisis, the vote in the congress in favor of this constitutional amendment was 124 to one.

Specifically, this little amendment right here: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."

Originally proposed in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment would guarantee gender equality under the law, and much like Title IX on campus, that constitutional amendment could require states to intervene and address gender violence as a prohibitive form of sex discrimination.

And within the last year, at least one of those states has ratified the amendment, because we live in different political times.

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