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Internment camps and limiting who had the right to vote weren’t unprecedented at that time either. That doesn’t make either acceptable by modern interpretations
by koolba 7y ago
Internment camps and limiting who had the right to vote weren’t unprecedented at that time either. That doesn’t make either acceptable by modern interpretations of the constitution.
- aaronbrethorst 7y agoWeird how the same people most interested in limiting who has the right to vote today are the same people who are most interested in overturning these shelter in place orders...
- jdkee 7y agoCare to offer a citation for your claim?
- Pfhreak 7y agoThat there were internment camps in the US? There's a long history of moving first people into concentration camps in the US, and FDR moved Japanese Americans to concentration camps during WW2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9066 There are more recent examples as well from America that house immigrants and prisoners from the Middle East.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> That there were internment camps in the US? I think the challenge is for evidence that the broad principle (either internment camps or limitations on the franchise) conflicts with current application of Constitutional law, rather than that the practice occurred in the US. > There are more recent examples as well from America that house immigrants and prisoners from the Middle East. Yeah, that's a weakness of the claim, not evidence for it.
- bduerst 7y agoAre they issuing orders for internment camps to battle covid 19? Then how is it not a red herring to the question about there being zero precedence for stay-at-home during a pandemic?