Andrew Johnson: “Must he forbear his complaint until the mischief is done and can not be prevented?”

The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.

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.

Strongly impressed with the truth of these views, I feel called upon by an imperative sense of duty to revive substantially the recommendation so often and so earnestly made by President Jackson.