Two centuries ago, the framers of the Constitution wrestled with the fundamental problem of government: how to balance the rights of individual citizens and minority groups against the need for order and defense of the society itself. One of the most obvious failures of this democratic system to proved equal rights for all of its citizens is evidence by the internment of Japanese-Americans and Italian Americans in detention camps during the period of WWII. Despite …
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…government agency to give reasonable justification for what was done. Not only were the rights of the detainees violated, but the principals of our American democracy were violated in a way that should offend all American citizens. If this could happen to them then it could also happen to anyone else, and the basis of our constitutional system has always been to prevent this type of action by providing equal rights and liberty to everyone.