Harry L. Jensen's

Editorial

         "Every language is a temple,
                      in which the soul of those
                                   who speak it is enshrined."

(Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)

Constitutional Amendment

November 15, 2011

Proposed Amendment XXVIII (28) to the US Constitution

English Language Amendment

Section I:

The United States official language will be English.

Federal, state and local governments will require all written and oral communication in the United States and its territories to be in English.

The United States government will not provide written bilingual documentation to any agency, state or the general U.S. population.

All voting documentation will be in English.

Section II:

No foreign national giving birth to a child within the boarders of the United States, will gain United States citizenship for that child.

Legal resident aliens giving birth to a child within the boarder of the United States will not obtain citizenship for that child.

Citizenship is restricted to children born to legal citizens of the United States.

Section III:

No child born in the United States, whose parents are not citizens of the United States have any United States citizenship status.

Section IV:

All applicants for United States citizenship must have a working knowledge of the English language that includes a minimum of 3000 English words.

All successful applicants for United State citizenship must pass a test emphasizing communicative English language skills.

All successful applicants for United State citizenship must pass a test showing a working knowledge of the United States Constitution.

The United States can not survive as a free nation unless all citizens can communicate via a single language. The English language is the language the United States Constitution was written and is the predominate language in the United States.

It is important that all U.S. citizens can communicate from the U.S. northern boarder to its southern border, sea to shining sea, Alaska and Hawaii. All U.S. territories must have English as their primary language.

The English language amendment that I proposed, must be the first amendment considered and passed by the States, so that the nation's is of one mind and one language.

Harry L. Jensen