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Gödel's Loophole is a supposed "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship.
These free Constitution Day lessons and activities will inspire students to understand, question, and debate the most important issues of our day.
Story's Abridgment may well have been even more influential than his three-volume work, because the Abridgment saw a much larger audience. The Abridgment was required reading at Harvard and in other academic settings. [9] Story published The Constitutional Class Book: being a brief exposition of the Constitution of the United States.
How Democratic is the American Constitution? is a 2001 book by political scientist Robert A. Dahl that discusses seven "undemocratic" elements of the United States Constitution. The book defines "democratic" as alignment with the principle of one person, one vote , also known as majority rule .
Article I, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution explains the powers delegated to the federal House of Representatives and Senate.
James Madison's No. 1 amendment, not in our Constitution, would keep congressional districts small and right-size our representation.
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America is a three-volume work by John Adams, written between 1787 and 1788.The text was Adams’ response to criticisms of the proposed American government, particularly those made by French economist and political theorist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, who had argued against bicameralism and separation of powers.
The need for a comprehensive guide to the interpretation of the Constitution was apparent to Congress from early in the 20th century. In 1911, the Senate Manual contained the United States Constitution and Amendments with citations to decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning constitutional law. [4]