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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!news.Vanderbilt.Edu!athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu!rickertj
  3. From: rickertj@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (John Rickert)
  4. Subject: Re: Godel and the US constitution
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep3.234549.28611@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu>
  6. Sender: John Rickert
  7. Organization: Vanderbilt University Mathematics Department
  8. References: <TORKEL.92Sep1191401@bast.sics.se> <1992Sep1.175844.16825@nas.nasa.gov> <1992Sep1.160045.15281@husc3.harvard.edu>
  9. Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 23:45:49 GMT
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  12. In article <1992Sep1.160045.15281@husc3.harvard.edu> elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies) writes:
  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. ???
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  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...
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  22. >--Noam D. Elkies (elkies@zariski.harvard.edu)
  23. >  Dept. of Mathematics, Harvard University
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  26.    Now _that's_ what I'd call "power of the purse"!
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  30. John Rickert
  31. rickertj@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu
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