Question: What clause gives Puerto Rican citizens the same rights as US citizens?
Answer: Privileges and Immunities Clause

Question: How is Puerto Rico designated in its constitution?
Answer: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Question: What title does the country have?
Answer: Estado Libre Asociado (literally translated as "Free Associated State")

Question: What act was approved on April 29th, 2010?
Answer: The Puerto Rico Democracy Act (H.R. 2499)

Question: What is the island under jurisdiction of?
Answer: Territorial Clause of the U.S. Constitution

Question: What percentage of voters rejected the status of territory?
Answer: 54 percent

Question: What percentage of voters preferred statehood?
Answer: 61 percent

Question: What percentage of voters abstained from voting on a preferred alternative status?
Answer: one in four voters

Question: What argument do those opposing statehood use?
Answer: the statehood option garnered only 45 percent of the votes if abstentions are included

Question: What newspaper suggested that Congress would ignore Puerto Rico's referendum?
Answer: The Hill

Question: What newspapers have published opinion pieces expressing support for Puerto Rico's statehood?
Answer: The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Boston Herald

Question: When was that article published?
Answer: November 8, 2012

Question: What Congress members agreed with the Hill's assesment?
Answer: U.S. Congressman Luis Gutiérrez U.S. Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez

Question: What politicians pushed for statehood for Puerto Rico?
Answer: Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, Governor Luis Fortuño

Question: What politician fought against statehood for Puerto Rico?
Answer: Governor-elect Alejandro García Padilla

Question: How did these politicians voice their concerns?
Answer: wrote separate letters to the President of the United States Barack Obama

Question: What was the White House stance?
Answer: the results were clear, the people of Puerto Rico want the issue of status resolved

Question: When was H.R. 2000 introduced?
Answer: On May 15, 2013

Question: What did Senator Heinrich's bill require?
Answer: a binding referendum to be held in Puerto Rico asking whether the territory wants to be admitted as a state.

Question: What would happen in the event of a yes vote in this referendum?
Answer: the president would be asked to submit legislation to Congress to admit Puerto Rico as a state

Question: What would H.R. 2000 do?
Answer: set forth the process for Puerto Rico to be admitted as a state of the Union

Question: Who considered the implications of the definition of the seat of government in the Constitution?
Answer: James Madison

Question: Where are these ideas located in the Federalist Papers?
Answer: Federalist No. 43

Question: What limits does the constitution have for the size of Washington, D.C.?
Answer: the Constitution does not set a minimum size for the District

Question: What caused the size of Washington, D.C. to change?
Answer: Virginia reclaimed the portion of the District south of the Potomac

Question: What Revolutionary War motto have Washington, D.C. statehood supporters modified and used?
Answer: "No taxation without representation", omitting the initial "No"

Question: What does the phrase protest?
Answer: their lack of Congressional representation

Question: In what way has the phrase been spread wide?
Answer: the phrase is now printed on newly issued Washington, D.C. license plates

Question: When did  Obama have the protest plates put on his Presidential limousine?
Answer: at the beginning of his second term

Question: What party carried the position of D.C. Statehood?
Answer: D.C. Statehood Party

Question: What party did the D.C. Statehood Party merge when?
Answer: the local Green Party affiliate

Question: When did the movement get closest to success?
Answer: 1978

Question: What would be the new name of the D.C. State?
Answer: New Columbia

Question: When did the drive for statehood falter?
Answer: 1985

Question: What is another likely country for statehood?
Answer: Guam

Question: What is another likely country for statehood?
Answer: United States Virgin Islands

Question: What entity reported on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands becoming one again?
Answer: Radio Australia

Question: What country had small grassroots movement for US Statehood?
Answer: The Philippines

Question: What party used to be known as the Federalista Party?
Answer: Federalista Party

Question: What was the most recent year of the Phillipines pushing for statehood?
Answer: 2004

Question: What is another connotation for the 51st state label?
Answer: if a certain political course is taken, Canada's destiny will be as little more than a part of the United States

Question: When was the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement enacted?
Answer: 1988

Question: When was the Charlottetown Accord signed?
Answer: 1992

Question: When did the Clarity Act go into effect?
Answer: 1999

Question: Who suggested that the Free Trade Agreement amounted to an American takeover of Canada?
Answer: Liberals

Question: When was this campaign ran?
Answer: In the 1988 federal election

Question: Who erased the border in the ad?
Answer: Progressive Conservative (PC) strategists

Question: What was the slogan of this ad?
Answer: "Here's where we draw the line."

Question: When did Quebec land in British hands?
Answer: 1763

Question: When did Ontario land in British hands?
Answer: 1763

Question: During which the US invade Canada?
Answer: the War of 1812

Question: What did several US politicians suggest doing in the 19th century?
Answer: annexing Canada

Question: When were the last days of the Dominion of Newfoundland?
Answer: In the late 1940s

Question: What did the Economic Union Party support?
Answer: an independent "responsible government"

Question: What was the result of the 1948 referendum?
Answer: The movement ultimately failed

Question: What does Canada being referred to as the 51st state in a positive way mean in the US, generally?
Answer: can serve to highlight the similarities and close relationship between the United States and Canada

Question: What is a negative connotation of the term?
Answer: to deride Canada as an unimportant neighbor

Question: How man votes did Parti 51 attract in 1989?
Answer: just 3,846 votes

Question: What did the other parties receive that year?
Answer: 40.16% (PQ) and 1.22% (NPDQ)

Question: When did Panama have the US-ruled Canal Zone Territory?
Answer: from 1903 to 1979

Question: When did El Salvador adopt the US Dollar as its currency?
Answer: 2001

Question: When did the British Honduras become Belize?
Answer: since 1981

Question: What country was Cuba a territory of?
Answer: Spain

Question: What battleship sunk in the Havana Harbor?
Answer: Maine

Question: When did Fidel Castro overthrow the Cuban government?
Answer: 1959

Question: What government did Castro install?
Answer: Marxist–Leninist government

Question: Why is Israel referred to as the 51st state?
Answer: the annual funding and defense support it receives from the United States

Question: What book did Martine Rothblatt publish?
Answer: Two Stars for Peace

Question: When was Two Stars for Peace published?
Answer: 2003

Question: Who wrote the book The American State of Canaan?
Answer: Alfred de Grazia

Question: When did Artcle 3 of the Treaty of San Francisco come into effect?
Answer: April 1952

Question: How many people lived on the island of Okinawa?
Answer: over 1 million

Question: When was Okinawa finally returned?
Answer: May 15, 1972

Question: Why did the US have troops on Okinawa?
Answer: as a defense for Japan.

Question: When did the 51st State Party attempt to register in New Zealand?
Answer: 2010

Question: Who is the secretary of the 51st State Party?
Answer: Paulus Telfer

Question: What does the 51st State Party advocate?
Answer: The party advocates New Zealand becoming the 51st state of the United States of America