As Congress passed these propositions by the necessary two-thirds majority they were not submitted to the President at all, it being considered that his disapproval, if given, would avail nothing against such a majority. This has been the custom from the first in Congressional propositions of amendment, and it is now too late to dispute its regularity. But it is easy to see that the President might support a veto of such propositions by such reasoning as to make it at least possible that sufficient votes might be changed from affirmative to negative upon them, to finally defeat them; and it is certainly true that the Constitution requires that every bill, order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President and is subject to his approval or veto, no matter by what majority it may have been passed. {80} [Sidenote: The President's attitude toward the proposed amendment.] However, President Johnson had no opportunity to express himself officially or make himself officially felt in regard to this Amendment. It was pretty well understood that he did not view it with favor while it was pending, and it soon became manifest that he was advising its rejection by the "States." [Sidenote: Mr. Seward's acts in regard to ratification.] Mr. Seward issued his notification of the passage of the amendment by Congress to the "State" legislatures for their ratificatory action on the 16th of June. He sent the same to the legislatures of all the "States," that is, to the legislatures of those bodies claiming to be "States" under the President's plan of Reconstruction, as well as to the legislatures of those "States" which had never pretended to secede from the Union. This was, again, certainly a recognition of all these bodies as "States" of the Union by the executive branch of the Government, at least. [Sidenote: The requirement that the ratification of the proposed Amendment should be the condition of the admission of the Senators- and Representatives-elect to seats in Congress.]