Which wartime action violated the constitution in the name of protecting the united states from perceived threats? a. news organizations were not permitted to film casualties returning home. b. prisoners of war were tortured and detained without charges. c. japanese americans were sent to internment camps. d. wiretaps were placed on phones without warrants.

The correct answer is C) Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps.

The wartime action that violated the Constitution in the name of protecting the United States from perceived threats was “Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps.” This action taken by the United States government during WWII violated the constitutional rights of some citizens because it detained Japanese citizens and were taken to camps.

In February 1942, Executive Order 9066 allowed the government of the U.S. the detention and incarceration of Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast of the country. They were taken out from their homes, to be sent to camps located in different parts of the country.

in mcculloch v. maryland (1819) the supreme court ruled that congress had implied powers under the necessary and proper clause of article i, section 8 of the constitution to create the second bank of the united states and that the state of maryland lacked the power to tax the bank.

gibbons v. ogden, (1824), was a landmark decision in which the supreme court of the united states held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to congress by the commerce clause of the united states constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.