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Originally Posted by Ken King

They have lawyers, they don't need to understand.

I was thinking that so I wonder if they lawyers understand this can be over rulled. More

this is interesting.....


Pennsylvania Germans. One of the earliest English-only campaigns erupted in colonial Penn-sylvania,
a scene of feverish ethnic rivalry. No less a figure than Benjamin Franklin circulated pamphlets expressing alarm that German settlers, now representing a third of the colony’s population, were failing to learn the language of their English neighbors. ‘Great disorders and inconveniences may one day arise among us,’ he warned, unless the Germans could be assimilated:

Those who come hither are generally of the most ignorant Stupid Sort of their own Nation, and as Ignorance is often attended with Credulity when Knavery would mislead it, and with Suspicion when Honesty would set it right; and as few of the English understand the German Language, and so cannot address them either from the Press or Pulpit, 'tis almost impossible to remove any prejudices they once entertain. (Franklin, [1753] 1961: IV, 483–484)