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- From: cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans)
- Subject: Re: Godel and the US constitution
- References: <1992Se <1992Sep1.203402.4257@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- <1992Sep02.134107.33391@watson.ibm.com>
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.171729.14243@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:17:29 GMT
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- In article <1992Sep02.134107.33391@watson.ibm.com> platt@watson.ibm.com (Daniel E. Platt) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep1.203402.4257@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, regeorge@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert E George) writes:
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- >Taft was wrong. Abraham Lincoln, under the state of emergency, revoked the
- >writ of habeas corpus, effectively making it possible to imprison people
- >indefinitely only upon an accusation. The powers associated with a state of
- >emergency might be adequate to keep a sufficiently popular president in
- >office effectively as a dictator. It was through the state-of-emergency
- >mechanisms in the German government that Hitler obtained his power.
- >
- >
- >Dan
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- Fortunately there is the second amendment of the Bill of Rights.
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- Charles Yeomans
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- cyeomans@ms.uky.edu
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