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- From: radford@cs.toronto.edu (Radford Neal)
- Subject: Re: Godel and the US constitution
- Message-ID: <92Sep2.183019edt.207@neuron.ai.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Sep1.175844.16825@nas.nasa.gov> <Btx5vK.33x@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <92Sep1.205802edt.637@neuron.ai.toronto.edu> <1992Sep2.170531.11675@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 22:30:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.170531.11675@ms.uky.edu> cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans) writes:
- >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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- Ahhh! But in Godel's time, there were also _territories_. Surely Alaska
- was plenty big enough for hundreds of states?
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- For that matter, do states have to occupy any land?
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- Radford
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