During World War II, the government argued that it should be able to waive the Fourteenth Amendment, claiming

The government defended the wartime exclusion and relocation of Japanese Americans by arguing that national-security concerns justified treating this group differently. It was not claiming that the Fourteenth Amendment stopped applying during war or that the president could suspend amendments. The claim was that certain groups could be excluded from the Amendment’s protections in these circumstances.

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