Andrew Johnson: “Within a period less than a year the legislation of Congress has attempted to strip the executive department of the…”

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.

The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.

My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.

I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.