Transcript Civil Liberties v. National Security

Civil Liberties v. National Security
NB 66-67
Essential Question
• What is the balance between civil liberties and
national security?
Warm Up
NB 61-62
• What do you see happening in these pictures?
• How do they make you feel?
Civil liberties
• Freedom from arbitrary governmental
interference (as with the right of free speech)
especially as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights
National security
a collective term for the defense and foreign
relations of a country, protection of the
interests of a country
See/Mean/Matter
Copy the quote
Paraphrase what it means
Answer the EQ
Executive Order 9066
• Whereas, the successful prosecution of the
war requires every possible protection against
espionage and against sabotage to nationaldefense material, national-defense premises
and national defense utilities as defined in
Section 4, Act of April 20, 1918,
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Executive Order 9066
Identity Crisis
• In many respects the Nisei have been
permanently altered in their attitudes, both
positively and negatively, in regard to their
identification with the values of their
bicultural heritage; or they remain confused
or even injured by the traumatic experience."
- "Identity Crisis of the Sansei and the
Concentration Camp", Nobu Miyoshi, 1978.
Korematsu v. United States
Korematsu v. United States
• "all legal restrictions which curtail the civil rights of a
single racial group are immediately suspect" and
subject to tests of "the most rigid scrutiny," not all such
restrictions are inherently unconstitutional. "Pressing
public necessity," he wrote, "may sometimes justify the
existence of such restrictions; racial antagonism never
can."
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• Hugo Black,
• Supreme Court Justice
• Writing for the majority in a 6-3 decision in favor of
the United States
Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Civil Liberties Act of 1988
• “As the Commission documents, these actions
were carried out without adequate security
reasons and without any acts of espionage or
sabotage documented by the Commission,
and were motivated largely by racial
prejudice, wartime hysteria, and failure of
political leadership.”
Civil liberties Act of 1988
August, 10, 1988
Presidential letter of apology
“In passing the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, we
acknowledged the wrongs of the past and
offered redress to those who endured such
grave injustice.”
Bill Clinton
Oct. 1, 1999
National Security and Civil Liberties
Reflection
• Group A: Write a persuasive essay supporting
civil liberties
• Group B: Write a persuasive essay supporting
national security
National Security and Civil Liberties
Reflection
• 1st Paragraph
• Hook: Describe a picture from the internment
and introduce the EQ.
• Define terms
– National security
– Civil liberties
• Give historical context: 5W’s and H
• Thesis: Answer the essential question
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National Security and Civil Liberties
Reflection
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2nd Paragraph
Introduction
Supporting Details: Reason 1
Supporting Details: Reason 2
Quote
Commentary: Explanation of Quote
Conclusion