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The necessity for its amendment is made so clear to my mind by observation of its evils and by the many able discussions which they have elicited on the floor of Congress and elsewhere that I should be wanting to my duty were I to withhold another expression of my deep solicitude on the subject.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Jackson expresses his deep concern for the need to amend the Constitution based on observed issues.

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