English as official U.S Language

English as official U.S Language

APA Research Paper

Though English language essentially is the cultural bind throughout the U.S., it's not, (and should not be), the official U.S. language, as many of the congressmen and bureaucrats suggest. In the U.S., English is the national language only in an informal sense, by numbers and by the historical and contemporary association. U.S. Constitution does not explicitly state any official language, although the constitution is written in English, like all legislation on federal and state levels. The 1990 Census of U.S. has something very serious to show: 13.8 percent of U.S. populace converse in some non-English language at home. Moreover about 2.9 percent, or 6.7 million U.S. citizens, either never spoke English, or were unable to speak the language well (U.S. Census 1990). To have an even better argument the American Community Survey Reports by U.S. Census states that in 2007, a 19.7 percent or about 55.4 million people spoke a language other than English in their home (Shin and Kom 2007). There were still five other specific languages with over a million speakers: French, Tagalog, Vietnamese, German, and Korean. According to American Civil Rights Liberty Movement, an organization that aims to guard American civil rights, fears that the laws that promotes the English Only attitude, will infringe the U.S. Constitution's shield of due process (particularly in courts where no language conversion facility would be available. Also affected will be the equal protection right (for instance, where English-only ballots would be used). English-only policies stigmatize U.S. workers.  These hardworking employees should not be fired just because they are speaking a language other than English, so long as they are competently executing their job duties. 

Designating English as the official language of the United States could be considered unconstitutional. Since approving the bill ...