Andrew Johnson: “The sages of that period were anxious to protect their posterity from the evils that they themselves had experienced.”

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.

With these brief suggestions the bill is respectfully returned, and the consideration of Congress invited to the accompanying preamble and resolutions.

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.