Thread: Attn: Californians! English IS the Official Language...

I wonder if there is any way we can SUE the State of California for ignoring this Amendment. Why can't an employer reserve the right to have English Only speakers...it's the OFFICIAL language! Why can't we have English Only signs on our businesses? Can we make CA the poster child for English Only? It's our Constitutional right!

California Official English Amendment
CALIFORNIA STATE CONSTITUTION,
ARTICLE III, SECTION 6
(Proposition 63, 1986)

Section 1:
(a) Purpose.
English is the common language of the people of the United States of America and the State of California. This section is intended to preserve, protect and strengthen the English language, and not to supersede any of the rights guaranteed to the people of this Constitution.
(b) English as the Official Language of California.
English is the official language of California.


(c) Enforcement.
The Legislature shall enforce this section by appropriate legislation. The Legislature and officials of the State of California shall take all steps necessary to insure that the role of English as the common language of the State of California is preserved and enhanced. The Legislature shall make no law which diminishes or ignores the role of English as the common language of the State of California.
(d) Personal Right of Action and Jurisdiction of Courts.
Any person who is a resident of or doing business in the State of California shall have standing to sue the State of California to enforce this action, and the Courts of record of the State of California shall have jurisdiction to hear cases brought to enforce this section. The Legislature may provide reasonable and appropriate limitations on the time and manner of suits brought under this section.


Section 2: Severability.
If any provision of this section, or the application of any such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this section to the extent it can be given effect shall not be affected thereby, and to this end, the provisions of this section are severable.



http://www.proenglish.org/states/california.htm

This is one of those feel good things Calif did to make it look
like they were doing something

It has about as much teeth as our immigration laws

No no no usanevada. It gives citizen standing to sue. Californians get to it!

Thanks, notyou! Nothing ventured ..nothing gained! We can't have a defeatist attitude! I intend to pursue it and I would hope others will, too!

Living in California, I'm sick of reading in the classifieds for employees that read.."BILINGUAL A MUST, BILINGUAL A PLUS"...We need to make this a law that U.S. citizens cannot be denied jobs in our country because we speak ENGLISH only...

We have so many lawyers on this site.

You have no damages, thus no lawsuit. I'll reply for you. Your damages are blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Fill in the blah with your own answers. No measure your damages. They are not certain and measurable. Therefore, the court cannot award damages.

English is THE language of America, PERIOD! And ANY foreigner who CANNOT or WILL NOT ACCEPT this has NO business BEING here!

Originally Posted by joazinha

English is THE language of America, PERIOD! And ANY foreigner who CANNOT or WILL NOT ACCEPT this has NO business BEING here!

Tell it to the courts sister.

If WE went to there COUNTRY WE would have to speak there LANGUAGE.
And We could not DEMAND ANYTHING .

Originally Posted by koobster

If WE went to there COUNTRY WE would have to speak there LANGUAGE.
And We could not DEMAND ANYTHING .

If we are expecting illegals to know the language, shouldn't you?

"Their" is defined as a possessive form that indicates ownership by more than one.

I have taught third graders the difference between "their" and "there."