With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.
No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the States, constituting this great and glorious Union. To the rest of the world, we are one. Neither State nor State government is known beyond our borders. Within, it is different.
Historically, Congress hasn't paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes.
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.
The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.
We do not need mindless spending bills with no reforms attached.
There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.
Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.