Question: Did the President and Congress go beyond their war powers by implementing exclusion and

restricting the rights of Americans of Japanese descent?

Facts of the case:

In response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, the US government

decided to require Jepanese Americans to move into relocation camps as a matter of national

security President Panklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942, two months

afer Pearl Harbor AJapanese American man living in San Leandro, Fred Korematsu, chose to

stay at his residence rather than obey the order to relocate Korematsu was arrested and

convicted of labing the order. He responded by arguing that Executive Order 9066 vielated the

F Amendment The Ninth Orcuit affirmed Korematsu's conviction.

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Gina Wolfe

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13 July, 16:52

Question: Did the President and Congress go beyond their war powers by implementing exclusion and

restricting the rights of Americans of Japanese descent?

Facts of the case:

In response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, the US government

decided to require Jepanese Americans to move into relocation camps as a matter of national

security President Panklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942, two months

afer Pearl Harbor AJapanese American man living in San Leandro, Fred Korematsu, chose to

stay at his residence rather than obey the order to relocate Korematsu was arrested and

convicted of labing the order. He responded by arguing that Executive Order 9066 vielated the

F Amendment The Ninth Orcuit affirmed Korematsu's conviction.

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Morgan Romero · Answer 1

Yes the government did

Explanation:

just because they have a Japanese descent doesn't mean they are also bad, for example, i can't say all boys are bad because one of them was mean