To the House of Representatives: I transmit a report from the Secretary of State in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of yesterday, making inquiry as to the States which have ratified the amendment to the Constitution proposed by the Thirty-ninth Congress.
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I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State of the 2d instant, together with accompanying papers.
My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
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