It is true it has been assumed that the existence of the States was terminated by the rebellious acts of their inhabitants, and that, the insurrection having been suppressed, they were thenceforward to be considered merely as conquered territories.
Johnson addresses the misconception that rebellious states ceased to exist and should be treated as conquered territories.
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I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
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.
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.
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