Fidelity to the Constitution may be understood or misunderstood in a thousand different ways, and by violent party men, in violent party times, unfaithfulness to the Constitution may even come to be considered meritorious.
Johnson warns that interpretations of fidelity to the Constitution can vary widely, especially in partisan contexts.
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I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with accompanying papers.
I communicate, for the consideration of the Senate, a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by a copy of a dispatch recently received from the acting United States consul in charge of the legation at San Jose, Costa Rica.
I transmit to Congress the accompanying documents, which I deem it proper to state are all the papers* that have been submitted to the President relating to the proceedings to which they refer in the States of South Carolina and Arkansas.
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