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

During World War II, the government defended the exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans by arguing that national security justified treating certain groups differently. It did not claim that the Fourteenth Amendment vanished during wartime or could be overturned. The correct choice is “certain groups could be excluded from this protection.”

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