John A. Macdonald was our first Prime Minister as well he was one of the "Father's of Confederation." Find out why he thought confederation was necessary. What were the pros and cons that he needed to think about that helped make his decision to support confederation?
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Answer: = I WORKED HARD FOR MANY YEARS TO change the United States Constitution - and I failed. Like so many others, I wanted the Constitution to assert the principle of equal rights without regard to gender. I had high hopes for the equal rights amendment, but I knew from the beginning that a constitutional amendment is difficult to obtain. So I was not surprised when the measure failed.
I was disappointed at the defeat but no less glad that the Constitution is so hard to change. I appreciate even more deeply now the obstacles the framers of the Constitution put in the way of the amendment process. The reason is simple: even though my efforts were unsuccessful, and there is no E.R.A. in the Constitution, there is also no official school prayer amendment or anti-abortion amendment.