Other countries get rid of dictators, why can't we?

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2. The founders never imagined two branches would concede their power to the third.

Kurt Gödel supposedly found a contradiction in our Constitution that would allow the country to become a dictatorship. I don't think he ever wrote it down. ??? The story I heard, was that Einstein told Gödel not to bring the topic up at his citizenship hearing. Could it have been as simple as you should never just trust in good intentions? Trust, but verify, one could say.