1. Japanese Internment - Executive Order #9066
This simple sentence has been the source of more debate and controversy than one might think. ... Justice Owen Roberts wrote in his dissent that this "is the case of convicting a citizen as a punishment for not submitting to imprisonment in a concentration camp, based on his ancestry, and solely because of his ancestry, without evidence or inquiry concerning his loyalty and good disposition towards the United States"11 Justice Robert Jackson noted that comparable burdens were not imposed upon descendants of the other nationalities (German, Italian) with whom the United States was als...
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