Read " Introduction to the Korematsu v. United States Supreme Court Case, The majority opinion of the court, written by Justice
Hugo Black. and A minority opinion written by Justice Murphy" passage set. 1) During World War ll, when the United States was at war with Japan, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. This order gave the U.S. military the power to exclude U.S. citizens of Japanese descent from areas of the county believed to be critical to national defense and potentially vulnerable to espionage, or spying. Using the power of Executive Order 9066, the U.S. military then issued a series of its own orders, including Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34, which banned all persons of Japanese ancestry from an area on the west coast of the United States stretching from Washington State through California. 2) The military orders like Exclusion Order No. 34 forced Japanese Americans to leave their homes and businesses on the west coast and relocate to internment camps. All citizens of Japanese descent were expected to submit to relocation and to remain in the camps until the end of the war. 3) Fred Korematsu, an American-born citizen of Japanese descent, defied Exclusion Order No. 34 and refused to leave his home in California. In 1942, Korematsu was convicted in federal court for failing to report for relocation to an internment camp. He appealed the federal court conviction and his case reached the Supreme Court in 1944. 4) The Supreme Court , in a 6-3 majority, agreed with the earlier federal court ruling and upheld Korematsu's conviction. 5) Just lack wrote the opinion for the majority of the court. Justice Murphy wrote one of the three dissenting opinions. ( Now Read Paragraphs 6-16 in the picture you'll have to expand to read). 17) The Judicial test of whether the Government, on a plea of military necessity, can validly deprive an individual of any of his constitutional rights in whether the deprivation is reasonably related to a public danger that is so " immediate, imminent, and impending" as not to admit of delay and not to permit the intervention of ordinary constitutional processes to alleviate the danger. Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34, banishing from a prescribed area of the Pacific Coast " all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non - alien," clearly does not meet that test. Being an obvious racial discrimination, the order deprives all those within its scope of the equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. It further deprives these individuals of their constitutional rights to live and work where they will, to establish a home where they choose 877.649.4789and to move about freely. In excommunication them without benefit of hearings, this order also deprives them of all their constitutional rights to procedural due process3. Yet no reasonable relation to an " immediate, imminent, and impending" public danger is evident to support the racial restriction, which is one of the most sweeping and complete deprivation of constitutional rights in the history of this nation in the absence of martial law. 18) The main reasons relied upon by those responsible for the forced evacuation, therefore, do not prove a reasonable relation between the group characteristics of Japanese Americans and the dangers of invasion, sabotage and espionage. The reasons appear instead to be largely an accumulation of much of the misinformation, half-truths and insinuations that for years have been directed against Japanese Americans by people with racial and economic prejudices -- the same people who have been among the foremost advocates of the evacuation. A military judgment based upon such racial and sociological consideration is not entitled to the great weight ordinarily given the judgments based upon strictly military considerations. 19) I dissent, therefore, from this legalization of racism. Racial discrimination in any form and in any degree has no justifiable part whatever in our democratic way of life. [ " Writing Prompt" ] Write a multi - paragraph informative essay in which you compare and contrast the point of view of Justice Black and Justice Murphy on the right of the government to relocate Japanese Americans during a time of war. Specifically, analyze where the two opinions agree and disagree on common issues in the case, including which details the Justices include and emphasize in their respective. . A) Provide an introduction/ Organize your essay in a logical order. Use relevant facts, concrete details, and quotations from the passage set in your essay. Use appropriate transitions between sentences and paragraphs to create cohesion and clarify the relationship s among ideas and concepts. Use precise language to explain the topic. Provide a conclusion that summarizes the topic. Be in a form of a multi - paragraph. Has to be 4 paragraphs No Less. Will Mark Brainliest.
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