Justice At War Analysis

This investigation will explore the question: To what extent was the degree of threat posed by a Japanese-Americans during the Second World War equivalent to the treatment they received from the US government? The 1930s - 1940s will be the focus of this investigation, to allow for an analysis of transcript evidence Roosevelt received before making the decision, as well as the political and public pressure that fueled up the decision. 1) The first source evaluated is a memorandum to the President from Attorney General Francis Biddle in February 17, 1942. The origin of this source is valuable because it was written directly from Francis Biddle; who was appointed to a number of important governmental roles, thus would have connections and had

The origin of this source is valuable because Peter Iron specializes in the constitutional and civil rights law, and has written extensively on the U.S. Supreme Court and constitutional litigation in books and articles, indicating that he is knowledgeable on this topic. The date of the publication of this source, 1983 being in the 1980s, where American historians tend to be more reflective and critical of their own nation’s wartime diplomacy[1] and the fact that Peter Iron is an American political activist who “has proclaimed his affinity for civil liberties”[2] in his lectures limits its value as his opinion will be biased; favoring the Orthodox Civil Libertarian

This is important as he completely opposed the justification of military necessity by the government and military using concrete evidence of the government itself attempted to destroy files rather than merely evaluating specific cases which could not give a whole picture of the whole problem as it could be argued as outliers；which makes it irrefutable as it is undeniable that the government had misconducted , giving value to the argument that the degree posed by Japanese-American was not equivalent as there are no concrete evidence of Japanese-Americans being disloyal. However the purpose and content of the source is limited for historian studying the Japanese Internment Camps as it mostly circulates around the justification of Military Necessity; thus had mainly used evidence of false accusation of Japanese-Americans being disloyal and how government files had