The majority of the Japanese people interned in camps were American citizens, meaning that their rights should be protected by the U.S. Constitution, and that they are endowed rights and privileges. To elaborate, America sent their own citizens, albeit with Japanese ancestry, to concentration camps, which oppressed their rights as a U.S. citizen. Although the interment of the Japanese-Americans violated the Constituion, some argue that “under conditions of modern warfare” (Document D, The Korematsu Supreme Court, paragraph 1), rights can be restricted “under circumstances of direstemergncy and peril” (paragraph 1). Their argument would be valid, of course, if they actually had real and sufficient evidence that would incriminate the
The majority of the Japanese people interned in camps were American citizens, meaning that their rights should be protected by the U.S. Constitution, and that they are endowed rights and privileges. To elaborate, America sent their own citizens, albeit with Japanese ancestry, to concentration camps, which oppressed their rights as a U.S. citizen. Although the interment of the Japanese-Americans violated the Constituion, some argue that “under conditions of modern warfare” (Document D, The Korematsu Supreme Court, paragraph 1), rights can be restricted “under circumstances of direstemergncy and peril” (paragraph 1). Their argument would be valid, of course, if they actually had real and sufficient evidence that would incriminate the