Gödel's loophole

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Gödel's Loophole is a supposed "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States postulated in 1947 by the Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel. It would permit the republican structure of the United States to be legally turned into a dictatorship. Gödel told his friend Oskar Morgenstern about the flaw and Morgenstern told Albert Einstein, but Morgenstern, in his recollection of the incident in 1971, never reported the exact problem. This has led to speculation about what is now called "Gödel's Loophole". John Nowak, a scholar of US constitutional law, has called it "one of the great unsolved problems of constitutional law".

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