Should English Be Made An Official Language Of The United States?

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Should English be made an official language of the United States?

Though English language essentially is the cultural bind throughout the U.S., it's not, the official U.S. language. Until now, English is known to be the national language only in an informal and historical sense. 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, p. 28). 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 constitutional, although many bureaucrats oppose the decision. Since approving the bill to make English the official language will require all government documents to be printed only in English, the decision may also interfere with due process. In a country considered to be the “melting pot” ...
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