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 constit

utional power” and falls into the ugly abyss of racism. The necessity of the argument was that there was a judicial test of whether the Government, on a plea of military necessity could validly deprive an individual of any of his constitutional rights if the deprivation is reasonably related to a public danger. The government’s decision to place Japanese American under military controlled camps made it apparent that racism and prejudice can and will supercede constitutional law. Even though today we are able to recognize the immorality of the occurrence, there are still similar situations where our government is being given to much control over our own free civil liberties.

It is evident that the government of United States shares the same trivialities and problems as any other government in power. But it is necessary that we are able to see the importance of the unalienable rights which were laid down to us in the founding of the country. No matter how much in danger, or how much we may pose a threat to national security, our constitutional rights must always remain absolute. If there ever ar

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