...defense and safety, which demanded that prompt and adequate measures be taken to guard against it. ... Distinctions between citizens solely because of their...often been held to be a denial of equal protection We may assume that these considerations would be controlling here were it not for the fact that the...

...parts of what the US Supreme Court said about this action. H/rabayashi v. US, 1943, US Supreme Court Distinctions between citizens solely because of their...institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.... We may assume that these considerations would be controlling here were it not for the fact that the...

...ascertained," were not loyal to the United States. Acknowledging that distinctions based upon race "are by their very nature odious to a free people...institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality," Stone maintained that such distinctions could be made when they "are relevant to our national defense...

...Distinctions of that kind have recently been declared by the highest judicial authority of the United States "by their very nature odious to a free people whose...institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality." They are said to be "utterly inconsistent with American traditions and ideals." Kiyoshi Hirabayashi...

...consistently repudiated '[distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry' as being 'odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.' "... Petitioner urges us to adopt for the first time a more restrictive view of the Equal Protection...

...consistently repudiated "[distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry" as being "odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality." Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 US 81, 100, 63 S.Ct. 1375, 1385, 87 L.Ed. 1774 (1943). At the very...

...racial inferiority or simple racial politics." Classifications of citizens solely on the basis of race "are by their very nature odious to a free people...institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality." They threaten to stigmatize individuals by reason of their membership in a racial group and to incite...

...social science evidence." Days's concurrence quotes Hirabayashi v. United States for the principle that "distinctions between citizens solely because of their...ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people."16 Michael McConnell insists that the social science studies are irrelevant to the Court's...

...Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. St. Francis College v. AI-Khazraji, 481 US 604, 614 n. 5 (1987). "Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality." Hirabayashi v. United States,...

...Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment St. Franca College v. AI-KhazraJi, 481 US 604, 614 n. 5 (1987). "Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality." Hlrabayashi v. United Slates,...