[caudicus]

While reading this I was wondering about Godel's constitutional loophole to allow a dictatorship and Google'd upon a hacker news discussion of the same topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=447852

[muerdeme]

It's interesting that the Constitution loophole story seems to be based on hearsay. The New Yorker is pretty meticulous about fact-checking.

[ableal]

The quickest and latest summary (linked in the discussion caudicus posted above) is probably this: http://blog.plover.com/law/Godel-dictatorship-3.html

Follow to http://morgenstern.jeffreykegler.com/ to get the PDF of one participant's telling. The first page is a handwritten letter, but the story is typewritten.