During this morning’s legislative meeting of the D.C. Council, Councilmembers Phil Mendelson and Michael A. Brown introduced legislation — the District of Columbia Flag Amendment Act of 2011 — which would allow the city to fly, on Flag Day, an alternate version of the District’s flag with the words “No Taxation Without Representation” emblazoned on it.

The bill is a follow-up to a bill Mendelson introduced in 2002, which the Council passed that allowed for the “redesigning the flag of the District of Columbia to include the words “DC” and “Taxation Without Representation” within the flag” in order “to promote the cause of full voting representation for the citizens of the District of Columbia in the United States Congress.” Several other Councilmembers voiced their support for the measure upon the bill’s introduction at this morning’s meeting.

Obviously, one can group this bill with Brown’s other statehood awareness projects, like his plans to rename several prominent streets around the city. But there’s something slightly more iconic about the District’s flag — the image, after all, can be found everywhere, from the skin of Washington’s tattooed to business logos. A similar effort to fly a flag like the one to the upper right was suggested in 2003, but eventually fell flat.

What do you think about the city tinkering with putting text on the flag?