Andrew Johnson: “The power of removal was incident to that duty, and might often be requisite to fulfill it.”

The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.

The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.

No power exists in the Constitution authorizing the joint resolution or the supposed law--the only difference being that one would be more palpably unconstitutional and revolutionary than the other.

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