Select the correct text in the passage. Read this excerpt from the dissenting opinion of the Supreme Court ruling on Korematsu v. United States. Which sentence contains the central
idea of the passage?
I dissent, because I think the indisputable facts exhibit a clear violation of Constitutional rights.
This is not a case of keeping people off the streets at night... nor a case of temporary exclusion of a citizen from an area for his own safety or
that of the community, nor a case of offering him an opportunity to go temporarily out of an area where his presence might cause danger to
himself or to his fellows. On the contrary, it is the case of convicting a citizen as a punishment for not submitting to imprisonment in a
concentration camp, based on his ancestry, and solely because of his ancestry, without evidence or inquiry concerning hisloyalty and good
disposition towards the United States. If this be a correct statement of the facts disclosed by this record, and facts of which we take judicial
notice, I need hardly labor the conclusion that constitutional rights have been violated.
The Government's argument, and the opinion of the court, in my judgment, erroneously divide that which is single and indivisible, and thus
make the case appear as if the petitioner violated a Military Order, sanctioned by Act of Congress, which excluded him from his home by refusing
voluntarily to leave, and so knowingly and intentionally defying the order and the Act of Congress.
The petitioner, a resident of San Leandro, Alameda County, California, is a native of the United States of Japanese ancestry who, according to the
uncontradicted evidence, is a loyal citizen of the nation.