1. The History of Bilingual Education in America
... own nation they will soon so out number us that all the advantages we have will not, in My Opinion, be able to preserve our language, and even out government will become precarious. Considerably later, Theodore Roosevelt echoed Franklin's views: We have room but for one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the ... , declaring an official language in other countries has been an attempt to restrict a minority group or to assert a newly formed country's independence. For example, when Slovakia separated from Czechoslovakia, one of the first orders of b...
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