DC Quarter - No Taxation Without Representation

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The DC quarter design was rejected because it includes the phrase "No Taxation Without Representation". Apparently, this phrase is not one of which "the entire Nation can be proud". Well, I think that while the Nation (why the capital N?) should not be proud of the fact that DC residents are disenfranchised and unrepresented in government, we should certainly be given the right to express this on our quarter.

Please take a minute and send an email to the U.S. Mint expressing your outrage by clicking here: http://www.freeandequaldc.com/quarter/index.jhtml?_requestid=172500

For more than 200 years, the residents of DC having been living without full democracy, relegated to the status of second-class citizens. Is it really too much to ask that we get to use our own quarter to remind America of this?

Comments

[daedala.livejournal.com]

You get to camp out on their doorsteps. And lobby in person. Isn't that representation?

(Bein' snarky. I signed.)