Arizona approves English as official language.....

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November 8th, 2006   #1
Team Infidel
 
 

Arizona approves English as official language..... info


http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pag...llot.measures/
Arizona | Proposition 103: English as Official Language
Would make English the official language of the state of Arizona and significantly reduce government sponsorship and funding of dual language-printed material for circulation.


 
November 8th, 2006   #2
Senior Chief
 
 
Now how do we get this on the ballot for the other 49 states?

Maybe in the 2008 election we can get it on the national ballot.
 
November 8th, 2006   #3
Rob Henderson
 
 
I thought the fact that the national language was officially English that all the states abided by that law...This is sounding a bit like the way it was before the formation of the Union...All the states wanted different laws...History repeats itself, and all that...
 
November 10th, 2006   #4
bulldogg
 
 
Henderson can you provide a link about your claim to English being the official language of the country at the federal level? Everything I am finding contradicts your claim.

As for the states having different laws, that's how its supposed to be in a federal system such as ours. I think I am going to spend a little time and locate a good Constitutional Law history for you and some of our other young Americans as I am becoming rapidly convinced that our education system is NOT educating you guys on this. Conventional wisdom does not translate to truth.


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November 11th, 2006   #5
Padre
 
 
By English gentlemen, do you mean the Queen's or that corruption of the English language spaked badly in the colonies?



 
November 11th, 2006   #6
Rob Henderson
 
 
At the federal level...I cant. But most people assume that its English.

Last edited by C/1Lt Henderson; November 11th, 2006 at 00:27..
 
November 11th, 2006   #7
tomtom22
 
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Senior Chief
Now how do we get this on the ballot for the other 49 states?

Maybe in the 2008 election we can get it on the national ballot.
One of the few times I agree with you!


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November 11th, 2006   #8
Rob Henderson
 
 
Oh well...Since it isn't, it should be...What kind of nation would we be if we had to have translators for a Congressional meeting because every state speaks a different language? Not a very united one, thats for sure.
 
November 11th, 2006   #9
5.56X45mm
 
 
The United States of America does not have a legal official language.

As a immigrant I support the move. Folks coming to the USA should become American. Learn the lingo.
 
November 11th, 2006   #10
Team Infidel
 
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Padre
By English gentlemen, do you mean the Queen's or that corruption of the English language spaked badly in the colonies?

i would have to say that corrupt, bastardized version. works for me....
 



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