English-Only Policies

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"English Only flows from insecurity. Now that demographic changes of all kinds - greater mobility, nontraditional families, mass culture - are disrupting Americans' sense of community, there is a renewed search for unifying institutions" --James Crawford English-Only. Making English the official language would defeat the whole purpose of this country. The founding fathers wrote the Constitution, which states that we have the right to a freedom of speech and education. If English was never the …

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