CHICANO 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reconstruction Amendments, Nicholas Trist, Tl;Dr
22 Jan 2018
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Background to the rpc of the 14th amendment. Originally, the epc only protected the constitutional rights of african. It was ratified as a part of the package of reconstruction amendments. Extended to chinese in the 1885 case of yick wo v hopkins. The court held that the discriminatory enforcement of a local ordinance against persons of chinese ancestry violated the ap clause of the 14th. Extended to japanese americans in 1944 in korematsu v united states. In korematsu c united states, the court addressed whether the internment of persons of japanese ancestry was unconstitutional. Although the court committed a grace error in finding that military necessity justifies the extreme action, it understood that the ep guarantee in theory protected persons of japanese ancestry. Until 1954, courts held that mexican americans were :white: and that they therefore were not protected by the ep clause of the 14th amendment.
