Andrew Johnson: “The expediency of authorizing other proceedings in case they should ultimately prove to be indispensable is submitted to…”

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

The foregoing views have long been entertained by me.

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.

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.