1. what is the difference between a government and a
state?

Although the two terms state and government are commonly used as synonyms, there is a difference between them. Government refers to the group of authorized people who governs a country or a state. State refers to the organized political community living under a single system of government. The main difference between state and government is that state is more or less permanent whereas government is temporary. The death of a ruler or a defeat at an election can change the government.

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b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

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this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do