Andrew Johnson: “As upon them must fall the burdens of a State organization, it is but just that they should be permitted to determine…”

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

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.

I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.