Andrew Johnson: “Equal and exact justice requires that all the creditors of the Government should be paid in a currency possessing a…”

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

Feeling constrained to withhold my consent, I herewith return the resolution to the Senate, in which House it originated, with a brief statement of the reasons which have induced my action.

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 would therefore recommend such an amendment of the Constitution as may remove all intermediate agency in the election of the President and Vice-President.