I am entirely persuaded that under such a rule the President can not perform the great duty assigned to him of seeing the laws faithfully executed, and that it disables him most especially from enforcing that rigid accountability which is necessary to the due execution of the revenue laws.
Johnson argues that a specific rule hinders the President's ability to enforce laws effectively.
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I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
No power exists in the Constitution authorizing the joint resolution or the supposed law--the only difference being that one would be more palpably unconstitutional and revolutionary than the other.
I would therefore recommend such an amendment of the Constitution as may remove all intermediate agency in the election of the President and Vice-President.
My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
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