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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5943723" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>&#039;When Gödel was studying to take his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_citizenship_test" target="_blank">American citizenship test</a> in 1947, he came across what he described as an “inner contradiction” in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" target="_blank">U.S. Constitution</a>. At the time, he was at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Advanced_Study" target="_blank">Institute for Advanced Study</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton,_New_Jersey" target="_blank">Princeton, New Jersey</a>, 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_state" target="_blank">fascist state</a>. Morgenstern tried to convince Gödel that this was very unlikely to happen, but Gödel remained very concerned about it. He was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" target="_blank">Austrian</a> by birth and, having lived through the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-elimination_of_the_Austrian_Parliament" target="_blank">1933 coup d’état</a> and escaped from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" target="_blank">Nazi Germany</a> after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss" target="_blank">Anschluss</a>, 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.&quot;</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5943723, member: 54375"] 'When Gödel was studying to take his [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_citizenship_test']American citizenship test[/URL] in 1947, he came across what he described as an “inner contradiction” in the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States']U.S. Constitution[/URL]. At the time, he was at the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Advanced_Study']Institute for Advanced Study[/URL] in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton,_New_Jersey']Princeton, New Jersey[/URL], 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 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_state']fascist state[/URL]. Morgenstern tried to convince Gödel that this was very unlikely to happen, but Gödel remained very concerned about it. He was an [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria']Austrian[/URL] by birth and, having lived through the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-elimination_of_the_Austrian_Parliament']1933 coup d’état[/URL] and escaped from [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany']Nazi Germany[/URL] after the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss']Anschluss[/URL], 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." [/QUOTE]

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