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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
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Posted: Wed Feb  8 16:14:44 1984
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Organization: Saint Josephs Univ. Phila., Pa.
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>> 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
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