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| Book Chapter |
| Is Language Choice a Fundamental Right? |
| James Weinstein |
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Perspectives on Official English: The Campaign for English as the Official Language of the USA Karen L. Adams & Daniel T. Brink eds., Mouton de Gruyter 1990 |
| Library Access |
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Abstract: The answer to the question posed above is yes and no. Yes there is a constitutional language right and no, there is not. No, in the sense that there is no right, as such: There is no freestanding right to use or to receive communications in a particular language. Yes in the sense that there is a constitutional right to communicate, and under some circumstances to receive communications in languages other than English. But this right to send and receive communication exists solely by virtue of other constitutional rights. Thus, this language right is made up of bits and pieces of other constitutional rights. |
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