United States Linguistic rights
language rights in united states derived fourteenth amendment, equal protection , due process clauses, because forbid racial , ethnic discrimination, allowing language minorities use amendment claim language rights. 1 example of use of due process clauses meyer v. nebraska case held 1919 nebraska law restricting foreign-language education violated due process clause of fourteenth amendment. 2 other cases of major importance linguistic rights yu cong eng v. trinidad case, overturned language-restrictive legislation in philippines, declaring piece of legislation violative of due process , equal protection clauses of philippine autonomy act of congress , farrington v. tokushige case, ruled governmental regulation of private schools, particularly restrict teaching of languages other english , hawaiian, damaging migrant population of hawaii. both of these cases influenced meyer case, precedent.
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