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Gödel's Loophole (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 month ago by Wiz@midwest.social to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

Gödel's Loophole is a supposed "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship. It has been called "one of the great unsolved problems of constitutional law" by F. E. Guerra-Pujol.

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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

The lack of actually knowing what he meant makes the whole thing sort of a void where people can drop their own speculation and attach his name to it to look smarter.

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"We the people.."

Oh yeah? Define 'the'.

-Gödel

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