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  2. From: elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: Re: Godel and the US constitution
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep1.160045.15281@husc3.harvard.edu>
  6. Date: 1 Sep 92 20:00:44 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Sep1.160045.15281
  8. References: <a_rubin.715364793@dn66> <TORKEL.92Sep1191401@bast.sics.se> <1992Sep1.175844.16825@nas.nasa.gov>
  9. Organization: Harvard Math Department
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  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: ramanujan.harvard.edu
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  13. In article <1992Sep1.175844.16825@nas.nasa.gov>
  14. asimov@wk223.nas.nasa.gov (Daniel A. Asimov) writes:
  15. >Out of curiosity, does anyone know how Godel envisioned a
  16. >consitutional dictatorship possibly arising in the U.S. ???
  17.  
  18. It would seem that all you need is 2/3 of the Senators and
  19. Representatives to agree on an Amendment that would make
  20. (say) Madonna the absolute ruler of the United States...
  21.  
  22. --Noam D. Elkies (elkies@zariski.harvard.edu)
  23.   Dept. of Mathematics, Harvard University
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