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.
Tyler asserts his constitutional duty by presenting the state of the Union and important measures to the public.
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