Andrew Johnson: “I submit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, the accompanying consular convention between…”

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.

My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.

The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.

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.