Making English the Official Language in the United States of America

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Making English the Official Language in U.S
Introduction
Declaration of English language to be official would mean that the government official businesses at all stages must be performed solely in English. This may include records public documents, regulations and legislation, and hearings, public meetings and official ceremonies, among others. The legislation of official English bears common sense omissions that permit the other languages use apart from English for the purpose of things like safety services and public health, promotion of tourism, foreign language instruction, as well as judicial proceeding (Chapman, Rogers, 50). The United States’ English was influential in passing H.R. one hundred and twenty thee, in the year nineteen ninety-six. This was The Bill Emerson English Language Empowerment Act made in nineteen ninety-six. Making English an official language and bilingual ballots has led to emotional debates of which one of the two should be practiced.
Discussion
The Bill Emerson English language empowerment Act, had made English in the United States government official language, went through in the Representatives’ House with vote of a bipartisan of two hundred and fifty nine versus one hundred and sixty nine. However, the senate failed to act on this bill before the session ended. Presently, the United States ENGLISH is operating in conjunction with Rep. Steve King from lowa to facilitate on passing a bill that would make English official in the one hundred and twelve Congress. H.R nine hundred and seven has been kept pending in the House of Representatives of the United States. Thirty-one states bear some structure of law regarding official English. The state of Oklahoma recently passed the legislation of official English in the year two thousand and ten. The United States ENGLISH is presently working in a number of states in order to pass procedures that will endorse new and official English bills or reinforce the already existing legislation.
Reasons for making English a national language
There are various reasons that results to making English the official language in the United States. Firstly, clarification would be needed in occasions where a conflict arises in meaning between regulations, government laws, or pronouncement that required to be issued in two or more languages. Thus, the English version would be the one in authority. Moreover, officiating English into a national language was necessary for clarification that the government had the mandate to provide it in order to allow the entitlement as well as right to the documents or services another language besides English. The other reason is to identify English language to prove a historical reality, which points the United States, was a nation that spoke English overwhelmingly, since it came to be. In addition, it was necessary since its foundational and constitutional documents are written in English.
The nationalization of the language will also help to avoid the burdens, costs, as well as conflicts that crop up in nations such as Canada and international organizations such as the European Union. The nations attempt to carry out business in two or more languages. English officiating would also help in conforming the other states and countries in the rest of the world. A percentage of eighty-five of the nations that are members of the United Nations bears official languages, while about fifty-three of them have adopted English to be their official language.
Children of the Immigrants should learn English
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