A trust artificially created, not for its own sake, but solely as a means of promoting the general welfare, its influence for good must necessarily depend upon the elevated character and true allegiance of the elector.
Third Annual Message
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I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
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 popular choice in an election by the House of Representatives is no greater than in an election made nominally by the people themselves.
I transmit herewith, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th of December last, a report from the Secretary of State of the 6th instant.
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