I have thus, fellow-citizens, acquitted myself of my duty under the Constitution by laying before you as succinctly as I have been able the state of the Union and by inviting your attention to measures of much importance to the country.
John Tyler: “I have thus, fellow-citizens, acquitted myself of my duty under the Constitution by laying before you as succinctly as I…”
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Tyler asserts his constitutional duty by presenting the state of the Union and important measures to the public.
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