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Title: Dissenting views Honorable Jack Brooks, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-002158
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Document explaining Jack Brooks's stance on both the Equal Rights Amendment and H.R. 638 that Brooks enclosed in correspondence to the Galveston chapter of the National Organization for Women.

Title: The efficacy of state rescission of ratification of a Federal Constitutional Amendment, March 15, 1977
Identifier: camh-dob-002153
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Dates: 1977-03-15
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The report from the Congressional Research Service discusses the legal implications of including an amendment allowing recission to H.R. 638, a bill that would extend the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment. Recission would allow states that had already passed the ERA to retract their ratification of the amendment.

Title: Memorandum, May 31, 1978
Identifier: camh-dob-002140
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States)
Dates: 1978-05-31
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The memorandum, written by General Counsel Alan Parker, comments on extending the ratification period for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.

Title: Summary of law respecting the constitutionality of Congressional legislation authorizing states to rescind ratifications of a proposed constitutional amendment, [1978]
Identifier: camh-dob-002154
Topic: Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relative to Equal Rights for Men and Women (United States), Legislation
Dates: 1978
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: The summary, distributed by the National Organization for Women (NOW) Action Center, argues that recission is unconstitutional and in direct conflict with Article V of the Constitution.