English_As_America’s_Official_Language

English As America’s Official Language English As America’s Official Language It’s hard to imagine that one of the highest powers of the world doesn’t even have an official language. Believe it or not, this nation is the United States of America. With the United States being in the top five for population, and the large cultural and ethnic diversity that America is facing, I believe that there should be one language for all the citizens in a limited manner. This will enhance people’s lifestyles and simplify legal matters a great deal. I believe that the passage of English as the official language will help to expand opportunities for immigrants to learn and speak English, the single greatest tool that immigrants must have to succeed. At the time of the nation's founding, it was commonplace to hear as many as 20 languages spoken in daily life, including Dutch, French, German and numerous Native American languages. Even the Articles of Confederation were printed in German, as well as English. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the nation's linguistic diversity grew as successive waves of Europeans immigrated to these shores and U.S. territory expanded to include Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. The debate over english, language, should, official, time, one, been, states, people, movement, languages, believe, speak, nation's, legislation, legal, laws, government, first, comes, voting, understand, representatives, proposed, passed, new, nation, immigrants, house, hard, freedom, documents, bill, america, amendment, years, waves, united, think, tax, success, state, spoken, speaking, something, several, senate, say, promotes, prohibits