Thread: Official English Is Sweeping The Nation: 30 States

Official English is sweeping the nation:
Idaho & Kansas make 30 states with official English;
Nevada may be next.


Last fall, Arizona's voters approved a constitutional amendment making English the state's official language, by a three-to-one margin. Now, the legislatures of Idaho and Kansas have eached passed official English laws. The Missouri legislature has also proposed to the state's voters a constitutional amendment making English that state's official language, which will be voted on Election Day, 2008. (Missouri statute already recognizes English as the "common language", and the state is counted by ProEnglish among the 30 states with "official English.") In Nevada, the Senate passed such an act by a 19-2 vote, and ProEnglish is optimistic that the bill will soon pass the House and be signed by the governor.

Official English bills have been introduced into several more states, including Texas, Michigan, Maryland, Oregon, Oklahoma, Washington and Wisconsin. Several more states are considering strengthening existing laws.

ProEnglish director of government relations Ben Piper, who appeared before a committee of the Kansas legislature to testify in support of the state's official English law, explained: "The failure of leadership at the national level is partly to blame for the growing move by state and local governments to pass their own official English laws and ordinances," Piper said. But he noted that even if an official English law were adopted at the national level, under our federal system there would be a need for states and local governments to act.

A national poll last December found that by more than 2-1, voters think that Congress and the president are not doing enough to defend English's historic role as the unifying language of the United States.

Official English legislaton being considered this year.
Read about on link below. State will appear in blue on the bottom.
...Missouri
...Nevada
...Kansas
...Idaho, or
...Arizona.



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YEAHHHH

But it is beyond me why its not ALREADY the official language.

Why are americans so afraid to be "american". Weird.