Quarter Bill

I believe you are correct and the journalist probably makes the link due to the purposed start date of the new quarter program.

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&docid=f:h392ih.txt


As for Conders statements it makes a lot of sense. That said, DC is moving towards trying to get a voting member into the house and was trying to get a commission to study the idea of becoming a state. At least that's the way I read this.

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/useftp.cgi?IPaddress=162.140.64.21&filename=h1433rh.txt&directory=/diskb/wais/data/110_cong_bills

 

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Here's an article about the District of Columbia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia .

I think that it would be a good idea to have a U.S. Territories & District Quarter coin program,as it would certainly educate people about these places that are like pieces of America overseas.

It isn't the Northern Mariana Islands that issued a lot of medal-coins.It was actually the Marshall Islands,which is an independent country like Palau.

Aidan.

 

Actually, they both have. However at least Marshall Islands coins are minted under authority by the actual govermnent of the Marshall Islands. The Marianas have a bad habit of trying to pass of their "coins" (strictly speaking, actually medals) as "official government issues" despite the fact as a US territory they have no authority to mint legal tender coins. Here is the most famous "coin" the Marianas are responsible for:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Tower_Silver_Dollar

There was also a similar controversy regarding copies of the 1933 double eagle (though personally I think that should have been less of an issue as no reasonable person would mistake it for the real thing.)

Whether the Marianas should be held responsible for the advertising by the private mints they higher to make medals is debateable I suppose, but they can hardly be called a disinterested party as they raise a significant amount of funds by the selling of these medals.

 

Does this mean we will have to add more stars to our Flag? Rewrite our History Books (YET AGAIN). Maybe we can just call them State wannabees.. That would include Ontario to I think.. Now since I live in Michigan, we Have two peninsulas. How come we dont get two quarters?

I live under the bridge so therefore considered a Troll.. My brother lives in the Upper and he is considered a Yooper. Howz it goin eh...

If they give them the quarters can we count on them for additional taxes as well?

VWrick, I have gotten one of them dud quarters for Washington DC, got one for P. Rico too. they are parody type copies.

 

If and when we add more states, we'll add more stars, but we could acquire 1,000 new territories and it would have no effect on the flag.

Pardon me for asking, but what are you talking about? Adding new events that occurred after a particular history book went to press is writing history, not rewriting it.

Appropriate, if the population wants to become a state, but the suggestion has been voted down more than once in Puerto Rican plebiscites, so I wouldn't advise applying that term to PR.

Huh?

 

Puerto Rico has voted on it on a number of ocassions. IIRC the closest it ever got was about 40% amongst those voting in Puerto Rico that wanted Puerto Rico to become a state. For what reason those who oppose it do, I can't say, but likely explanations are the desire to keep a sort-of-national idendity and they perceive there being more benefits to being a mostly autonomous territory to being a state. (I think there were some who were worried that public education might force English on mostly Spanish speaking people or something like that, but there is in fact no legal requirement the public education be in any specific language. The US does not have an official language, despite English being the de facto lingua franca.)

Another interesting fact: There are 4 times as many Puerto Ricans living in New York City (about 2 million) as there are living in Puerto Rico (about 500,000).

American Samoa (aka Eastern Samoa; Western Samoa, formerly British Samoa, is an independent country) has never even put statehood up to a vote; there isn't any significant movement pressing for statehood there, largely due to the perception there are more benefits in being a territory than a state.

 

American Samoa is another U.S. territory that did have a few medal-coin issues,most notably those commemorating the America's Cup.

Western Samoa was actually a New Zealand-administered territory.It is a fully independent British Commonwealth member state.

Aidan.

 

As was pointed out this is the 5th time the House has passed this bill in some form. Each time the Senate has failed to act. The simple reason is the these territories have no reps. in the Senate so there is no incentive to act. The only way I see this moveing forward would be as an add on to another bill the way the 2009 lincoln cent commerative was added onto the President dollar coin bill.
Perhaps an add-on to the NATIVE AMERICAN $1 COIN PROGRAM?