Question 5 • United States History
The Court upheld the wartime exclusion order that led to Korematsu’s conviction, accepting the government’s claim that military necessity justified the policy. In the terms of these choices, that meant constitutional protections could be set aside during a wartime emergency. The Court did not rule that the Fourteenth Amendment was void or that it did not apply because Korematsu was Japanese.
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