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    role within the hearts of Americans when this attack occurred. From this event, the Executive Order 9066 was born. This order was issued due to the fear of another Japanese-based terrorist attack.…

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    cultural experiences, they still have American identity. In both Okita's and Cisneros's works they express American identity as being the culture you express rather than how you look or where your family came from. Dwight Okita's poem "Response to Executive Order 9066" is about a young Japanese American girl who grew up in America, and she was best friends with a white girl. Once the war started Japanese Americans were targeted as being traitors and terrorists, and they were sent off to a form…

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    Executive Orders #2594 and #9066 Executive order #2594 was issued by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917. This executive order created the Committee on Public Information. It was significant because the CPI was a major key in “selling the war”. This order restricted civil liberties in the U.S. because America tried to “mask the bad aspects of the upcoming draft by advertising the war to make it seem like joining the military was the right thing to do. Most noteworthy, no one could essentially stop…

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    President has used since our first President George Washington called executive orders. This power is a primary use by the president, although state governors have it as one of their governing powers. Presidents have taken of advantage of this to get around congress to make laws and decision that congress doesn’t want to. Is this something that the Executive branch has too much power the answer no; it’s not because the orders work like laws being put into effect. If it’s found unconstitutional…

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    article of my interest concerns the unconstitutional nature of the Executive Order that President Trump enacted in January. Earlier this semester, we discussed how the travel ban issued by Executive Order violates aspects of the constitutional law. The article by Kerry Abrams, professor of law at the University of Virginia School of Law, succinctly explains how the Executive order violates constitutional law. Firstly, the order violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment by…

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    On February 19th, 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066, which approved the secretary of war to declare parts of the United States military sections. The order authorized the military “to ban any citizens from a fifty to sixty-mile-wide coastal area stretching from Washington State to parts California and going all the way into part of Arizona.” With the timing of the Executive Order 9066 being passed it was only 10 short weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the…

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    influential. I think that the Executive Branch is more powerful. It is headed by the president, the Executive Branch directs national defense, and the president carries out the federal laws. The only reason I think the Executive Branch is more influential because the most important power is Commander- in- Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America. The Executive Branch is in charge of executing laws which basically means carrying them out. The Executive Branch is headed…

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    Executive Branch History

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    The executive branch is part of a three branch system that is put in place to preserve the separation of powers. The executive branch is vested in the president of the United States. When Congress enacts laws, the president is in charge of and responsible for the implementation and the enforcement of those law. This branch in particular is the overseer and executes/enforces the law. the president is the head of the government and Commander in Chief. The power if the commander in chief is…

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    war. The Vietnam war was shaped by the disagreements between the executive and judicial…

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    Canada eventually began to build forts in order to declare land they believed was rightfully theirs. The building of these forts did not settle well with colonies, specifically the Virginia colony. In 1754 the Virginia governor in outrage sent militia officer George Washington to threaten the French over the land…

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