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History of the Naturalization of Kurt Gödel [pdf]
- schoen 9y agoI think there was another page somewhere that found even more information about what Gödel's constitutional loophole was. I think it had to do with the smallest number of people in existing government offices who could conspire to seize total power while formally following constitutional principles; Gödel felt that this number was actually quite small. I don't remember what procedure he may have suggested.
- schoen 9y agoThere are some discussions at https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-flaw-Kurt-G%C3%B6del-discovered-in-the-US-constitution-that-would-allow-conversion-to-a-dictatorship https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-flaw-Kurt-G%C3%B6del-disc... https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/9785/how-did-g%C3%B6del-believe-the-us-could-become-a-dictatorship-without-the-constitutio https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/9785/how-did-g%... https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2010183 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2010183 The discussion that I actually remembered was https://blog.plover.com/law/Godel-dictatorship.html https://blog.plover.com/law/Godel-dictatorship.html which discusses the prospect of having Congress admit large numbers of new states with extremely tiny populations, in order to give those populations a straightforward and routine way of passing constitutional amendments. Guerra-Pujol doesn't think this is what Gödel had in mind, and indeed things it was just about the ability to amend the constitution via its official amendment procedure so as to eliminate particular rights, political institutions, or restrictions on further amendments.