In answer to the resolutions of the Senate of the 5th of January and 27th of February last, requesting information in regard to provisional governors of States, I transmit reports from the Secretary of State and the Secretary of War, to whom the resolutions were referred.
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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.
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.
The danger of a defeat of the people's choice in an election by the House of Representatives remains unprovided for in the Constitution.
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