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At the time the German language was spoken by a large amount of the population (Pennsylvania Dutch). When they were voting on a national language German was defeated by only one vote.

I'm no expert on American constitutional history but I have read that this is a myth, and that what they were voting on was to allow German to be used in official documents as well as English. Unfortunately I can't remember what my source for this was.

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