Note 1116 — AMENDMENT 14 (continued 5)

Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 (1886). Cf. Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81 (1943), where the Court sustained the relocation of American citizens of Japanese ancestry on the ground that in this case the fact of origin might reasonably be deemed to have some substantial relation to national security. It was careful to point out however, that normally distinctions based on race or national origin are invidious and hence void.