The loophole in the U.S. Constitution

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11 points·ramchip··6 comments

I suggest reading Morgenstern's document; short and interesting. It was especially amusing to see Einstein trolling Gödel. As the author says:

It's only three pages long, and it paints a fascinating picture of both Gödel, who is exactly the sort of obsessive geek that you always imagined he was, and of Einstein, who had a cruel streak that he was careful not to show to the public.

>> But before I let you get too excited about this, a warning: Morgenstern doesn't tell us what Gödel's loophole was!

Wow, that headline was quite a tease!

If anyone could find such a path through the Constitution, it would be Godel. I wonder if he encoded the Constitution into a bunch of long numbers first and then used some properties of them to find out his dictatorship process.

Maybe George Bush just found his notes: Declare war against unknown group of people (102030301020), seize power (202030320231), continue to have 'war' as long as needed. (1111111..)

As I read that, I think I can safely say that's not a new plan, actually.

This is almost flaggable.

The title doesn't represent the article, The article just points to a bunch of other stuff (linkbait), and I was left no better off at having spent time visiting the page.

I think the author himself realizes how lame this is, because at the end he says something like "read this other article for a sense at the personalities involved!" but doesn't really go into that, either.

Not so good.

It is flaggable. It's garbage. Even if the link had any substance, so what? It's not like the US Constitution is thought to be self-consistent. It didn't take any geniuses to figure out how to erode its principles over the last 200 years.

Gödel and his girlfriend at a U.S. airport security check:

http://xkcd.com/651/

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