I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of yesterday, making inquiry how many and what State legislatures have ratified the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States known as the fourteenth article.
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My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
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 transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
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