It was quite common in those days for educated gentlemen to speak, or at least read, Latin and/or French and maybe even Greek. Not all of the Founding Fathers had these accomplishments but many did. Michael Montagne
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No. A 'national language" cannot be chosen. An "official government language can. There was no choice to be made for either a national or official language, since virtually all colonists came from England or were born to English speaking families, English simply became the national language by default. Had they decided to pick any other "national language", it would probably have been put in the Constitution as the official language of the US government. That way, all citizens would have to learn that language in order to understand what the government was doing.
While not perhaps the first language in many countries, English seems to have become the general language for communication between the peoples of this planet.
The founding fathers were educated between the years 1776 to 1787. They had a firm view aboutÊthe focus on education.Ê
Federalism is a form of government in which a constitution is created that will distribute powers between a central government and subsidiary governments. This is the type of government that the founding fathers created for the United Stated.
i am pretty sure that when the founding fathers were around we had a government that would talk more and work togeher bettter than now!
checks and balances.