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 national-defense 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."

• • 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 1988August, 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 ClintonOct. 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•

• 2nd Paragraph • Introduction • Supporting Details: Reason 1• Supporting Details: Reason 2• Quote• Commentary: Explanation of Quote• Conclusion

National Security and Civil Liberties Reflection