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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Article I, Section | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Article I, Section 3-a of the Texas Constitution (''<small>"Equal Rights Amendment"</small>'')}}{{Texas Constitution|text=Added November 7, 1972: | ||
'''Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed, or national origin. This amendment is self-operative.''' | '''Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed, or national origin. This amendment is self-operative.''' | ||
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The effect of this section of the state constitution, known as the Texas Equal Rights Amendment, is to subject classifications based upon sex to "strict scrutiny." For information regarding the fifteen-year campaign to secure passage of the amendment, see [https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/mlt02 ''Texas Equal Rights Amendment'']. | The effect of this section of the state constitution, known as the Texas Equal Rights Amendment, is to subject classifications based upon sex to "strict scrutiny." For information regarding the fifteen-year campaign to secure passage of the amendment, see [https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/mlt02 ''Texas Equal Rights Amendment'']. | ||
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* ''Heaton v. Bristol'', 317 S.W.2d 86, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=18222848089783696141#p98 98] (Tex.Civ.App.–Waco 1958, ref'd) ("Neither counsel for appellants nor appellees have pointed out any case wherein an appellate court of any jurisdiction has at any time held, or even intimated, that a state cannot, as a part of its over-all educational system, maintain one all-male or one all-female university as the Legislature has done in Texas for our higher educational system. There is certainly not even the remotest suggestion by inference or otherwise in any of the reported cases that the system now maintained by Texas constitutes a violation of any constitutional provisions, State or Federal.") | * ''Heaton v. Bristol'', 317 S.W.2d 86, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=18222848089783696141#p98 98] (Tex.Civ.App.–Waco 1958, ref'd) ("Neither counsel for appellants nor appellees have pointed out any case wherein an appellate court of any jurisdiction has at any time held, or even intimated, that a state cannot, as a part of its over-all educational system, maintain one all-male or one all-female university as the Legislature has done in Texas for our higher educational system. There is certainly not even the remotest suggestion by inference or otherwise in any of the reported cases that the system now maintained by Texas constitutes a violation of any constitutional provisions, State or Federal.") | ||
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