t forth in the Constitution. However, in the state of the wartime mania, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in February of 1942, designating areas for internment camps (McCoy). In just six months, almost every person of Japanese descent was in America's version of concentration camps, forced to give up their belongings, property, and capital. "Ironically, any threat of Japanese attack, real or imagined, had disappeared by then because of Japan's losses in the naval battles of the Coral Sea and at Midway in June" (Rice 479). Thus the relocation of the Japanese and reasoning behind it had no factual basis.
             Beyond the reasoning for relocation, the fundamental question of civil rights would be approached in the years following the war. American citizens were forced to endure freezing winters and boiling summers in relocation camps. Camp-life had immeasurable affects upon those of Japanese ancestry. While the rest of the state enjoyed the economic boom
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