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The Constitution limits power on Government through Checks and Balances. In a 1944 case between Korematsu and the United States during World War II, a presidential executive order gave the military authority to exclude citizens of Japanese descent from areas deemed critical to national defense and potentially vulnerable to espionage. Along with this they also arrested Japanese Americans and forced them into internment camps. Korematsu however, a US citizen from ancestry descent, refused to leave his home in San Leandro, California. Korematsu appealed, and in 1944 the case reached the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court decided over the question “Did the President and Congress go beyond their war powers by implementing exclusion and restricting the rights of Americans of Japanese descent?” The answer is yes, they did, and it presents just how much more power the President had …show more content…

since January 1, 2010 to apply for permission to work and stay in the U.S. for three years. This organization has changed millions of lives as well. DAPA was passed through an executive order although all three branches were able to review the idea. The US would have fallen apart a long time ago if the branches were not balanced. The Executive enforces laws which are presented to the Legislative. Both of these branches need each other in order to make laws which is crucial so that no branch has all the power. When someone breaks one of these laws, then the Judicial branch decides whether the offender is guilty or not. All three branches have a very specific job to follow and therefore, they’re all

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The Japanese were marked as an “enemy race” by the Federal Government on February 19, 1942 (Robinson, 78). That

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“The truth was, at this point Papa did not know which way to turn. In the government 's eyes a free man now, he sat, like those black slaves you hear about who, when they got word of their freedom at the end of the Civil War, just did not know where else to go or what else to do and ended up back on the plantation, rooted there out of habit or lethargy or fear” (Farewell to Manzanar, ----). Papa was just one victim of injustice. After the Japanese dropped a bomb on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1947, all Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps. President Roosevelt signed executive order 9066, ordering that all people of Japanese ethnicity because the government viewed them as a threat to national security.

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The Fourth Amendment declares “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” The two main points being the “lack of probable cause” and the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects”. It should be noted that due to the hastiness of the relocation, many Japanese-Americans made ill-prepared financial decisions that led to an unnecessary loss of money, possessions, and land, in which some of it that was lost is now valued to be worth millions of dollars. While the government claimed there was evidence of some Japanese-American involvement in espionage, there was no concrete accusation put forth. In, addition some Japanese-Americans left their families behind in the internment camps to go and fight in the US armed forces during World War II.

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On the date of Feb 19, 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order. This executive order forced all Japanese American citizens, regardless of their loyalty to the country. It forced them to evacuate their homes and not just the Japanese Americans in a particular part of the country all Japanese Americans would be put into internment camps. At one point in time all of the camps combined held 120,000 Japanese Americans. This was all cause due to the fact that the Japanese Military at the time bombed Pearl Harbor an American Naval base in Hawaii.

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Executive Order 9066 placed all citizens of Japanese descent in internment camps. Even Japanese citizens from Peru were forcefully sent to American internment camps. “...the US government asked a dozen Latin American countries, among them Peru, to arrest its Japanese residents. ”(Gonzales) This represents how Americans were insecure about the US national security.

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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Americans were fearful of further Japanese attacks on the West Coast and also of Japanese Americans. In response to this fear, President Roosevelt passed an executive order relocating all people of Japanese descent from the West Coast inland. Similar to the fear of the American people, the witch hunts in the novel The Crucible by Arthur Miller led people to believe that girls in the town were being bewitched. Mass hysteria caused multiple arrests for accusations and even death for the so called “witches”. The theme of fear in both the Crucible and the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII caused people to be easily persuaded with the use of pathos and logos.

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All hold different powers and, therefore, can check the power of the other branches. Document C says “…the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that they may be a check on the other…. They should not be so far separated as to have no constitutional control over each other.” Even though all three branches have their own jobs, they all rely on each other for many things. For example, the legislative branch can make a law, but the executive branch can veto it.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt made a decision that would change the lives of Japanese-Americans on February 19, 1942, two months following the Japanese bombings on Pearl Harbor. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of over 110,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident immigrants from Japan1. Meaning that Japanese-Americans, regardless of their U.S. citizenship, were forced to evacuate their homes and businesses and then proceed to move to remote war relocation and internment camps run by the U.S. Government. The attack on Pearl Harbor had, unfortunately, released a wave of negativity, aggression and blatant racism that some of the Non-Japanese American citizens had been holding in up until the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

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Civil rights means everyone should be treated equally no matter their race or color. Many people fought for civil rights, and it is an important part of American history. Everyday black people struggled to get an education. Civil rights made it possible for black people to go to school. Little Rock Nine changed the course of U.S. history.

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These three branches have certain duties for instance, the legislative branch or sometimes referred as congress consists of two parts the House of Representatives and the Senate which are in charge of making the laws. The executive branch enforce the laws and is lead by the President. Moreover, the judicial branch is composed of courts such as the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, and District Courts and examine if a law is constitutional. Separation of powers protects against tyranny because the power is separated in between three branches so that one branch won’t have all the

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Lobbyists from western states, many representing competing economic interests or nativist groups, pressured Congress and the President to remove persons of Japanese descent from the west coast, both foreign born (issei – meaning “first generation” of Japanese in the U.S.) and American citizens (nisei – the second generation of Japanese in America, U.S. citizens by birthright.) During Congressional committee hearings, Department of Justice representatives raised constitutional and ethical objections to the proposal, so the U.S. Army carried out the task instead. The West Coast was divided into military zones, and on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing exclusion. Congress then implemented the order on March 21, 1942, by passing Public Law

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The constitution of the United States defines the separation of powers between the three branches. The Legislative branch has the job to make laws, Executive is to carry out laws and the Judicial branch is to interpret laws. The Federalists paper also cites the evidence of the separation of powers between the 3 branches. The Legislative can over power the chief of the Executive branch by the choice of impeaching the president. The president can over power the Judicial branch by nominating judges.

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The fear of an invasion went in the minds of Americans. This was an idea that was thought by many military authorities. So they had a right to send the Japanese to the internment camps. ”Military authorities feared an invasion of our West Coast and… because they decided that the military urgency of the situation demanded that all citizens of Japanese ancestry be segregated from the West Coast temporarily(Black,1944). “There is no Japanese ‘problem’ on the Coast.

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In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion orders. The Court limited its decision to the validity of the exclusion orders, adding, "The provisions of other orders requiring persons of Japanese ancestry to report to assembly centers and providing for the detention of such persons in assembly and relocation centers were separate, and their validity is not in issue in this proceeding. " The United States Census Bureau assisted the internment efforts by providing confidential neighborhood information on Japanese Americans. The Bureau 's role was denied for decades, but was finally proven in

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The United States entered into World War II after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 9066, forcing the removal of 110,000 Japanese to detention centers. The incarceration caused a deep trauma for many Japanese Americans, exposing them to harassment, danger, and violence. They were taken away from their freedom of speech, choice, and association. Japanese Americans were discriminated, an American racial/ethnic subject to be negotiated, and often looked down to because they were neither black or white.

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