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- From: cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans)
- Subject: Re: Godel and the US constitution
- References: <1992Sep1.175844.16825@nas.nasa.gov>
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- <92Sep1.205802edt.637@neuron.ai.toronto.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.170531.11675@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:05:31 GMT
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- In article <92Sep1.205802edt.637@neuron.ai.toronto.edu> radford@cs.toronto.edu (Radford Neal) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep1.175844.16825@nas.nasa.gov> asimov@wk223.nas.nasa.gov (Daniel A. Asimov) writes:
- >
- >>Out of curiosity, does anyone know how Godel envisioned a
- >>consitutional dictatorship possibly arising in the U.S. ???
- >
- >
- >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...
- >
- > Radford Neal
-
- Not quite. To form a new state out of pieces of one or more old states
- requires both the consent of congress and the consent of the legislatures
- of the states involved - this is explicitly stated in the Constitution.
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- Charles Yeomans
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