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- From: radford@cs.toronto.edu (Radford Neal)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Godel and the US constitution
- Message-ID: <92Sep1.205802edt.637@neuron.ai.toronto.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 00:58:20 GMT
- References: <a_rubin.715364793@dn66> <TORKEL.92Sep1191401@bast.sics.se> <1992Sep1.175844.16825@nas.nasa.gov> <Btx5vK.33x@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep1.175844.16825@nas.nasa.gov> asimov@wk223.nas.nasa.gov (Daniel A. Asimov) writes:
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- >Out of curiosity, does anyone know how Godel envisioned a
- >consitutional dictatorship possibly arising in the U.S. ???
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- Well... My recollection is fuzzy, but can't the US congress create new
- states just by passing a bill? It should be no problem for them to
- create several hundred of them, each containing only a single
- resident, namely, one of themselves. They can then run in these new
- states come next election, elect themselves, and out-vote any
- uncooperative representatives from the old states...
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- Radford Neal
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