Question

The dissenting opinion raises the fact that Japanese Americans were being deprived of what rights?

Answer 1

The correct answer is civil liberties and civil rights.

Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps after president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into place Executive Order 9066. This was made shortly after the Japanese attacked the American military base at Pearl Harbor. After this, thousands of Japanese American citizens were forced into these camps. In the famous Supreme Court case, Korematsu vs. US, one citizen sued the US stating that this was a violation of his constitutional rights.

Even though the majority of judges disagreed, the dissenting opinions clearly stated that they felt this violated the rights of Japanese American citizens who were forced to move their home and abandon their property.

Answer 2

The dissenting opinion raised the fact that the Japanese American people were being deprived of their civil liberties and of their civil rights. They were taken from the homes they lived in, their businesses they owned were closed down, and were put into camps and not able to return. Many of the people died.