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- From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
- Subject: Re: Godel and the US constitution
- In-Reply-To: cyeomans@ms.uky.edu's message of Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:45:20 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 07:55:46 GMT
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- Charles Yeomans says that the president has the right to suspend habeas corpus
- during martial law and that this right is in the constitution. I don't remember
- that being there. Can someone supply a specific reference?
-
- I also mentioned that the Bush Administration tried to convince the Supreme
- Court recently that the constitutional ban on the establishment of
- religion did not mean there could not be a state religion. Charles seemed
- to think that I was referring to individual states, since if one of the states
- has its own religion, like its own bird, that would be a state religion, like
- the state bird. Actually, what I was saying was that the Bush administration
- was trying to convince the Supremem Court that it would be constitutional
- for the US government to institute a national religion. When a country has
- a state religion, it does not mean the individual states in that country;
- it means that the state (i.e. the government) institutes a religion.
-
- I believe Italy has a state religion, for example, and everyone is taught
- religion in the public schools. A particular religion.
-
- I believe wholeheartedly in the separation of church and state and I
- am dismayed that we have a president who doesn't. Dan Quayle denounces
- Ross Perot for suggesting that there could be room for improvement in the
- constitution, but actually the Bush Administration does not believe in the
- rights guaranteed by the constitution and is hard at work trying to
- weaken them. I can't imagine a greater disaster for this country than
- for Bush to be reelected and allowed to appoint a replacement for the
- next Supreme Court justice to retire, which will be fairly soon.
-
- Allan Adler
- ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
-
- Disclaimer: These are my own opinions, not those of MIT, as far as I know.
-