To the House of Representatives: I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution of the 18th instant, a report from the Secretary of State, with its accompanying papers.
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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.
I transmit the accompanying communications from the Secretary of the Interior, together with the papers to which they have reference.
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