If President Truman were to be cloned from his DNA, would he be eligible to be elected President again over and over indefinitely?
Play it again, Harry..
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M$Just because someone is geneticly the same person, they are a different being shaped by differing life experiences. Just as identical twins are geneticly identical, but seperate beings.
Now if mad scientists perfected memory uploading to clones it would get far more grey. . .
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What I would suggest is stack clones, give each two terms, but have unlimited copies! Mwahahahhahaaha!
If the clone is a different person you might have to do that. But if it is the same person you could save cost and training by having him elected over and over. But, quite a few interesting questions arise.
Would Truman-birthers argue that the clone was not a "natural born" citizen? Or even a citizen at all?
For that matter, I often wonder if or why someone born through a Ceasarian section is considered eligible for the Presidency, since they are not "natural born", a la Macduff:
to Macbeth:
"Despair thy charm,
And let the angel whom thou still hast served,
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb,
Untimely ripp'd.
"
If the clone is a different person, then that new person would only be allowed two terms. But, if the clone is really Truman, then he is exempt from the limit and can be President over and over. That's what makes mad scientists hair turn white - the curious questions they ponder.
No. It was a Constitutional amendment. It specifically excepted the current (at the time) President, who was Truman. He didn't run for more terms; but, now that cloning is theoretically possible, Mad Scientists want to know.
That would be like saying a twin couldn't get elected if his/her identical sibling already served two terms.
@thechadwich, does that mean you think a clone should be treated the same as a twin? That certainly is one of the reasonable options, as the DNA is the same. But in the case of the clone, the clone is actually grown from part of one of the original person's cells. Wouldn't that matter?