Question

Which Amendment to the Constitution should have protected Japanese American civil liberties during WWII?

- the 2nd amendment
-the 13th amendment
- the 1st amendment
-the 14th amendment

Answer 1

D. The 14th Amendment... The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War

Answer 2

The correct answer is the 14th amendment.

The 14th amendment established two critical ideas in American society. One of them is the idea of birthright citizenship. This means that all people born on United States soil are automatically citizens. The second idea was the Equal Protection Clause. This was put in place to ensure all citizens, regardless of race, ethnicity, etc. were treated the same under the law.

This was not the case for Japanese Americans during World War II, as thousands of them were sent into internment camps within the United States. They had committed no crime and were not being treated equally under the law.