“ I swear to maintain the Constitution, to respect liberty of conscience, to oppose a return to feudal institutions, never to make war except for the defence and glory of the Republic, and to employ the authority with which I shall be invested only for the good of the people, from whom and for whom I shall have received it. ”

“ The citizen appointed to succeed the First Consul takes an oath to the Republic at the hands of the First Consul, assisted by the second and third Consuls, in the presence of the Senate, the ministers, the Council of State, the Corps-Legislatif, the Tribunate, the Tribunal of Cassation, the archbishops, the bishops, the presidents of the appellate tribunals, the presidents of the electoral colleges, the presidents of the cantonal assemblies, the grand officers of the Legion of Honor, and the mayors of the twenty-four principal cities of the Republic. ”

“ The First Consul can, in addition, appoint to the Senate, without previous presentation by the department electoral colleges, citizens distinguished by their services and their talents, on condition, nevertheless, that they shall be of the age required by the Constitution, and that the number of senators shall in no case exceed one hundred and twenty. ”