To the Senate: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, respecting the occupation by the French troops of the Republic of Mexico and the establishment of a monarchy there, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.
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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.
The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.
My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
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