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The provision that persons cannot be deprived of liberty without due process of law takes precedence over the war powers." Both authors therefore agree that the American Constitution prohibits the unwarranted detention of citizens based on their ethnicity alone. Only the Chicago Daily Tribune article uses the type of language befitting an editorial. For instance, the author uses terms like "prejudice" and "hysteria" to describe the issue. The Los Angeles Times article necessarily avoids strong language like this, and yet still manages to convince readers that the internment camps were legally and ethically wrong. The author achieves a subtle editorial commentary in the selection of quotations. For example, Justice Roberts is quoted as saying that W.R.A. centers are "euphemism for concentration camps" and along with other dissenting justices on the Supreme Court "denied there was any evidence that exclusion...

The Los Angeles Times article is longer and offers more in-depth commentary on the Korematsu case, which the Chicago Daily Tribune does not address.
The Constitution forms the basis for both the articles in the Chicago Daily Triune and the Los Angeles Times. Although the former is an editorial and the latter a news journalism piece, both articles denounce the detainment of innocent American citizens on the basis of racism. Both point out that racism was at the heart of the detainment camp issue, even if the editorial author has the ability to use harsher language than the reporter for the Los Angeles Times. The two articles refer to the specific Constitutional amendments and the recent Supreme Court cases that define them.

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