ive got a friend who's stationed in Hawaii, apparently there's a case upcoming to the federal courts about whether or not Hawaii is in fact a US state by the Constitution. Supposedly from the news clipping he sent me, the Queen of Hawaii in the 1940s, never did initiate or petition the US Congress to become a state, which must have happened in order for it legally to become a state. Hawaii allegedly had no representation at the vote in Congress after WW2, Congress simply annexed them. There was also no vote of the citizenship which by the US Articles of the Constitution must take place.