This is a proposed amendment to the Constitution.
1. English shall be the official language of the United States. Braille and American Sign Language shall be the official assistive alternative languages for the disabled.
2. All citizens born or naturalized in the United States and its territories shall be proficient in written and spoken English by the age of eighteen or the time of naturalization, whichever is later, excepting those persons who by cause of physical or mental disability have been deprived of the ability to read, write or speak, and whose disability can not be accommodated.
3. The oath of allegiance to the United States shall be administered only in English or in one of the assistive alternative languages for a disabled person.
4. All activities of government shall be conducted in English; assistive alternative languages for the disabled shall be available, according to the individual’s need. Accommodations for other written or spoken languages may be made, provided all languages are thus accommodated.
5. No person shall be naturalized, nor shall any naturalized person retain citizenship, who has taken up arms against the United States and the Constitution, or who has sworn allegiance to or been subject to any doctrine which does not recognize this Constitution as the Supreme Law in the United States, or which requires the covert or overt overthrow of this Constitution or government of the United States.
6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions or the legislatures, as determined by public ballot, in the several States, as provided herein.
Revised 10/28/2010: Edited for clarity regarding oath of allegiance. Removed commerce as a required English language activity.
