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jberryhill

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14. No

Reply to former9thward (Reply #8)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 02:19 PM

Feb 2014

Arizona's law says that all official business will be conducted in English. That's fine.

The First Amendment prevents them from demanding that others speak, or not speak, any particular language.

However, with respect to certain commercial speech, such as putting the "Nutrition Facts" on food products or the Surgeon General's warning on cigarettes, the language can be, and is, specified.

Of course one cannot advertise tobacco products in various media in any language whatsoever.

Arizona's 1998 law on the subject, incidentally, was ruled unconstitutional. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/29/us/arizona-court-strikes-down-law-requiring-english-use.html

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I know Canada has no First Amendment. former9thward Feb 2014 #17

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