A military republic, a government rounded on mock elections and supported only by the sword, was nearly a quarter of a century since pronounced by Daniel Webster, when speaking of the South American States, as 'a movement, indeed, but a retrograde and disastrous movement, from the regular and old-fashioned monarchical systems;'
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The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.
The danger of a defeat of the popular choice in an election by the House of Representatives is no greater than in an election made nominally by the people themselves.
Feeling constrained to withhold my consent, I herewith return the resolution to the Senate, in which House it originated, with a brief statement of the reasons which have induced my action.
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.
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