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that right?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Kiefer.
DELEGATE KIEFER; No, that is not quite correct.
What I said was, and what the committee report says, was.
that the equality, "no person shall be denied the equal
protection of the laws,"applies to all persons.
Now, there have been concerted efforts in
Congress for a good many years to provide a separate
amendment with respect to sex, and I think the reason
for it was to particularly eliminate any probable con-
fusion.
Now, these questions do not come up under -the
equal protection clause. The language that would be used,
which has been offered in this Constitutional amendment,
was equality of rights under law shall not be denied on
account of sex, and what that exactly would mean I am
not sure, but it seems to have been a consensus of opinion,
at least in Congress, and as a matter of fact in various
other state areas, that this should be the subject of some
special kind of arrangement, not just thrown in this equal
protection thing.