Part II: Breaking the Constitution
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“If it is a question of safety of the country, or the Constitution of the United States, why
the Constitution is just a scrap of paper to me.” – John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War,
1942.14
Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed and issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19,
1942, but the creation of this document, spanning over the course of two months, was plagued by
doubt, disagreement, public outcry, and the successful bending and breaking of constitutional
rights. Many powerful members of the United States government played a role in the Order’s
construction, such as much of the War Department, while others in the Justice Department
opposed its clear lack of necessity and breach of personal freedoms.
While most of the War Department was on board with incarceration, Assistant Secretary
of War John J. McCloy, coming from a background in law, remained apprehensive to break it.
This apprehension juxtaposed to his priority in national security led him to make the
controversial but unsurprising-for-war-time statement placed at this beginning of this section,
ending with, “…why the Constitution is just a scrap of paper to me.”15 McCloy was ready to
disregard the constitutional rights of Japanese Americans if it meant protecting the White ones
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