Japanese_Concentration_Camps

Japanese Concentration Camps During World War II, Japanese Americans experienced a monumental peril to their rights as American Citizens. Because they were thought to pose a threat to our national security they were placed into camps for control over any malicious outbreaks that were predicted to occur. Not only was this a complete contradiction to America’s constitution, the founding law of the land, but it could be seen as almost a mirror image of the root evils from Hitler’s past regime. Because of the excessive power given to the executive branch in a time of crisis, we weren’t able to realize what kind of atrocity we were creating. American Citizens were being held against their will and rights, in military prisons because our free-willing government thought it fit at the time to strip us from our own independence. It wasn’t till Korematsu V. United States, where a Japanese American spoke out in legal outcry to challenge the decisions made by the United States government in that time of World War II. The courts response was that of Justice Murphy’s dissention that such exclusion goes over “the very brink of constitutional power” and falls into the ugly abyss of racism. The necessity of government, rights, because, power, over, constitutional, war, united, time, states, made, liberties, law, japanese, country, control, american, able, world, seen, security, same, race, people, own, necessity, national, much, military, ii, founding, danger, being, very, threat