The United States is a country founded and built around law. A significant amount of the country’s founding fathers were lawyers. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton were all lawyers. It is no coincidence that the most important documents in the country specifically lay out the law for the protection of its people. The founders drafted an ingenious system; one of which the world had never seen. A system built to prevent a tyrant from rising to power ever again. One of those precautionary measures was the separation of powers. The executive enforces the laws that the legislative body creates, and it is up to the judiciary to interpret the legality and constitutionality of said laws. I will be focusing on the legislative
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Some near 110,000 had their human rights violated. One would ask how such a law could be passed post-14th amendment. The Department of Justice at the time was against the passing of the law, and justice Frank Murphy described the order as the “legalization of racism”. Those of Japanese descent were forcibly relocated to ten military zones throughout the western United States. Nearly 70,000 of the evacuees were American citizens. The government made no charges against them, nor could they appeal their incarceration. All lost personal liberties and most lost homes and property as well. Although several Japanese Americans challenged the government’s actions in court cases, the Supreme Court upheld their legality. It was found out later on that none of the people that were forcibly evacuated ever committed a crime. This is most abhorrent depravity of human rights post slavery America had every had ever witnessed post …show more content…
Despite the trio of amendments, states in the south used discriminatory practices such as poll taxes and literacy tests among others to violate the liberties of african-americans. Violence via the Ku Klux Klan was condoned as well. It took decades - even during Reconstruction nothing was done - until congress passed an official civil rights act. Finally, in 1957, it established a civil rights section of the Justice Department, along with a commission on Civil Rights to investigate discriminatory conditions. Three years later, Congress provided for court-appointed referees to help blacks register to vote. Both of these bills had to be revised over and over again in order to pass due to heavy southern resistance. When John F. Kennedy entered the White House in 1961, he initially delayed supporting new anti-discrimination laws, but with protests springing up throughout the South—including one in Birmingham, Alabama, where police brutally suppressed nonviolent demonstrators with dogs, clubs and high-pressure fire hoses—Kennedy decided that enough was enough. In June 1963, he proposed by far the most important civil rights legislation to date, saying the United States “will not be fully free until all of its citizens are
Some near 110,000 had their human rights violated. One would ask how such a law could be passed post-14th amendment. The Department of Justice at the time was against the passing of the law, and justice Frank Murphy described the order as the “legalization of racism”. Those of Japanese descent were forcibly relocated to ten military zones throughout the western United States. Nearly 70,000 of the evacuees were American citizens. The government made no charges against them, nor could they appeal their incarceration. All lost personal liberties and most lost homes and property as well. Although several Japanese Americans challenged the government’s actions in court cases, the Supreme Court upheld their legality. It was found out later on that none of the people that were forcibly evacuated ever committed a crime. This is most abhorrent depravity of human rights post slavery America had every had ever witnessed post …show more content…
Despite the trio of amendments, states in the south used discriminatory practices such as poll taxes and literacy tests among others to violate the liberties of african-americans. Violence via the Ku Klux Klan was condoned as well. It took decades - even during Reconstruction nothing was done - until congress passed an official civil rights act. Finally, in 1957, it established a civil rights section of the Justice Department, along with a commission on Civil Rights to investigate discriminatory conditions. Three years later, Congress provided for court-appointed referees to help blacks register to vote. Both of these bills had to be revised over and over again in order to pass due to heavy southern resistance. When John F. Kennedy entered the White House in 1961, he initially delayed supporting new anti-discrimination laws, but with protests springing up throughout the South—including one in Birmingham, Alabama, where police brutally suppressed nonviolent demonstrators with dogs, clubs and high-pressure fire hoses—Kennedy decided that enough was enough. In June 1963, he proposed by far the most important civil rights legislation to date, saying the United States “will not be fully free until all of its citizens are