Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!psuvax!burdvax!sjuvax!bbanerje From: bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: laws against silliness Message-ID: <148@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 16:14:44 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.148 Posted: Wed Feb 8 16:14:44 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 03:55:42 EST References: <5394@uiucdcs.UUCP>, <443@pyuxn.UUCP> Organization: Saint Josephs Univ. Phila., Pa. Lines: 16 >> You are both forgetting that the Constitution clearly states >> (somewhere, just before the naughty bits) that Congress cannot pass a >> law that would cause it to abolish itself. >> Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr However, I recall a debate with a logician who maintained that the Constitution was a meta-document, and could therefore be self- referential. Thus, in order to invalidate the Constitution, all that would have to be done would be to put through a Constitutional Amendment, stating "This document is invalid". Congress would then be free to abolish itself. -- Binayak Banerjee {allegra | astrovax | bpa | burdvax}!sjuvax!bbanerje