Trial by jury, self incrimination, double jeooardy, and search warrants.
If it is, Japan's motivation to seek more territories in Asia was for more resources during WWII. The U.S cut all resources going from the U.S to WWII.
I believe a majority of major battles happened in these places because the British had control of them at some point. New York also served as the British base of operations so they probably wanted to break Britain's hold on these cities.
