>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. Gödel told his friend Oskar Morgenstern about the existence of the flaw and Morgenstern told Albert Einstein about it at the time, but Morgenstern, in his recollection of the incident in 1971, never mentioned the exact problem as Gödel saw it. This has led to speculation about the precise nature of what has come to be called "Gödel's Loophole." It has been called "one of the great unsolved problems of constitutional law" by F. E. Guerra-Pujol.>When Gödel was studying to take his American citizenship test in 1947, he came across what he described as an "inner contradiction" in the U.S. Constitution. At the time, he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he was good friends with Albert Einstein and Oskar Morgenstern. Gödel told Morgenstern about the flaw in the constitution, which, he said, would allow the United States to legally become a fascist state. Morgenstern tried to convince Gödel that this was very unlikely to happen, but Gödel remained very concerned about it. He was an Austrian by birth and, having lived through the 1933 coup d'état and escaped from Nazi Germany after the Anschluss, had reason to be concerned about living in a fascist dictatorship. Morgenstern had a number of discussions with Gödel about his concerns, and also told Einstein about them.What do you guys think the loophole is?
>>17274932Lack of term limits
>>17274932Sounds like autism and neuroticism because he can't tell the difference between what is practical or likely and a mere technicality that only a computer program would go along with. If you ever found out what it was, you would probably think it was weird that he thought human laws worked like the formal theorems and proofs he was experienced with in mathematics.
>>17274932Sounds fake and gay
>>17274932I'm guessing it's that you can amend or remove any part of the constitution besides article 5, which is just the provision that allows you to modify any aspect of the constitution or bill of rights.I would guess the loophole is that americans could convene a constitutional convention to destroy democracy and the constitution would legitimize it. Of course in that case, article 5 would still be in effect, and the new dictatorship could theoretically be deposed by a subsequent constitutional convention.How'd I do?
>>17274932I thought you were testing us and I couldn't think of anything, so I googled it.>Since the exact nature of Gödel's Loophole has never been published, what it is, precisely, is not known.
Executive branch (i.e. actual enforcement of all laws) answers to the president, as does control of the military.If one wanted to go dictator there's an awful lot of room for abuse of power. Impeachment's supposedly a remedy but requiring 2/3rds of the senate is a high bar - it would be a very rare president that couldn't command 1/3rd of senators to act as a blocking faction.
>>17275523That's been the consensus on what the most likely guess is.
>>17277387>>17276172>there's no actual answerfuck
>>17274932If literally no other lawyer or constitutional scholar has it figured out, then Goedel was obviously just busting people's balls with this lmao
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