Read the excerpt from Representative Shirley Chisholm’s speech on equal rights for women. Mr. Speaker, House Joint Resolution 264, before us today, which provides for equality under the law for both men and women, represents one of the most clear-cut opportunities we are likely to have to declare our faith in the principles that shaped our Constitution. It provides a legal basis for attack on the most subtle, most pervasive, and most institutionalized form of prejudice that exists. Discrimination against women, solely on the basis of their sex, is so widespread that it seems to many persons normal, natural and right.

–Equal rights speech,
Shirley Chisholm

Why did the Equal Rights Amendment fail?

Most people believed that women were not equal to men.
Many feared that the amendment would create a unisex society.
The law was unnecessary since women already had equality.
Social liberalism was not a powerful belief system in the late 1960s.

B.

Explanation:

Equal Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to Congress by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman. In December 1923, Paul and Eastman proposed to the Congress an amendment that required equal rights for Americans, regardless of sexes. This distinction was to be removed legally in the matters of divorce, property, employment, etc.

The Equal Rights Amendments failed in 1983 because of lack of votes by some states. It failed as it provided vague description and people also feared that it might create a unisex society. The proponent of this view point was Phyllis Schlafly.

Therefore, option B is correct.

separation of powers, therefore, refers to the division of government responsibilities into distinct branches to limit any one branch from exercising the core functions of another.   the intent is to prevent the concentration of power and provide for checks and balances.  

the traditional characterizations of the powers of the branches of american government are:

* the legislative branch is responsible for enacting the laws of the state and appropriating the money necessary to operate the government.

* the executive branch is responsible for implementing and administering the public policy enacted and funded by the legislative branch.

* the judicial branch is responsible for interpreting the constitution and laws and applying their interpretations to controversies brought before it.

forty state constitutions specify that government be divided into three branches:   legislative, executive and judicial.   california illustrates this approach; "the powers of state government are legislative, executive, and judicial.   persons charged with the exercise of one power may not exercise either of the others except as permitted by this constitution."

while separation of powers is key to the workings of american government, no democratic system exists with an absolute separation of powers or an absolute lack of separation of powers. governmental powers and responsibilities intentionally overlap; they are too complex and interrelated to be neatly compartmentalized. as a result, there is an inherent measure of competition and conflict

minnesota:   minnesota house research,   separation of powers: when statutes and court rules conflict, 2005