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“Constitution of the Year XII”, published in 1804, is a work by . It explores elements such as the Legislative Body, the Council of State and Tribunate.

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Constitution of the Year XII (1804)

“ The positions of the grand officers are irremovable. Each of the grand officers of the Empire presides over an electoral college which is especially set aside for him at the moment of his appointment. If, by an order of the Emperor or by any other cause whatsoever, a titular grand dignitary of the Empire or a grand officer happens to discontinue his functions, he preserves his title, his rank, his privileges, and half of his stipend: he loses these only by a judgment of the high imperial court. ”

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Constitution of the Year XII (1804)

“ Any law whose promulgation tinder that circumstance has not taken place before the expiration of the interval of ten days, can no longer be promulgated, unless it has been newly deliberated upon and adopted by the Legislative Body. The entire operations of an electoral college and the partial operations which are relative to the presentation of the candidates to the Senate, Legislative Body, and Tribunate cannot be annulled on account of unconstitutionality, except by a senatus-consultum. ”

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Constitution of the Year XII (1804)

“ An organic senatus-consultum, proposed to the Senate by the titular high dignitaries of the Empire and submitted for the acceptance of the people, appoints the emperor and controls in his family the order of inheritance, from male to male, to the perpetual exclusion of women and their descendants. Until the moment in which the election of the new emperor is completed, the affairs of the state are directed by the ministers, who form themselves into a council of government and who make their decisions by a majority of votes. The secretary of state keeps the register of the deliberations. ”

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Constitution of the Year XII (1804)

“ The people desire the inheritance of the imperial dignity in the direct, natural, legitimate and adoptive lineage of Napoleon Bonaparte, and in the direct, natural, and legitimate lineage of Joseph Bonaparte and of Louis Bonaparte, as is regulated by the organic senatus-consultum of this day. ”

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Constitution of the Year XII (1804)

“ The ministers or the councillors of state charged with any part whatsoever of the public administration can be denounced by the Legislative Body, if they have given orders contrary to the constitutions and the laws of the Empire. ”

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Constitution of the Year XII (1804)

“ A senatus-consultum regulates the manner of the education of the French princes. They are members of the Senate and of the Council of State when they have reached their eighteenth year. They cannot marry without the authorisation of the Emperor. ”

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Constitution of the Year XII (1804)

“ The high imperial court can act only upon proceedings instituted by the public ministry in the offenses committed by those whose rank makes them subject to the jurisdiction of the imperial court; if there is a complaint, the public ministry becomes necessarily joint and prosecuting party, and proceeds as is required hereinafter. ”

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Constitution of the Year XII (1804)

“ He receives the oath of the resident chargés d'affaires, secretaries of embassy and legation, commissioners-general and commissioners of commercial relations.
He presents the extraordinary ambassadors and ambassadors, and French and foreign ministers. The archtreasurer is present at the annual report in which the ministers of finance and of the public treasury render to the Emperor the accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the state and express their views upon the needs of the finances of the Empire. ”

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Constitution of the Year XII (1804)

“ He gives an account to the Emperor of the convocations made upon the request of the commissions or of a senator, of their object, and of the results of the deliberation of the Senate. A commission of seven members, appointed by the Senate and chosen within its own body, takes cognizance, upon the communication made to it by the ministers, of the arrests effected in conformity with article 46 of the constitution, when the persons arrested have not been brought before the tribunals within ten days after their arrest. ”

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