at least 35 drafts of an amendment that she will make much simpler in its form, and called the lucretia mott amendment. that is the first version she introduces officially in 1923. she did not tell her party, though, that she had already made the decision to work on this. it was decided behind the scenes. in 1923, there is this great gathering at seneca falls, new york. she said to her party members, "what is the next step for women?" at that point, she has already decided what she was going to do. she had already come up with basic dress for the equal rights amendment. but i think she thought women would be very receptive to it, and i think she thought that the united states would be receptive to it, in some way. particularly, i think originally she might have felt that women that work in the labor forces would be receptive to it. many of them were suffragists. i think it probably suppressor initially that women in the labor forces and women in work and unions immediately opposed the equal rights amendment, because it would eliminate those protective pieces of legislation. i think her inten