Executive Directory of the Cisalpine Republic

“ The Executive Directory of the French Republic, not content, to have employed its influence and the victories of the republican armies, to assure the political existence of the Cisalpine Republic, carries its solicitude still farther; and, convinced, that if liberty be the first of blessings, a revolution may draw after it the most terrible of all calamities, it gives to the Cisalpine people, his proper Constitution, the result of the wisdom of the most enlightened nation of Europe. ”

“ It belongs to the Cisalpine Republic to show to the world, by its wisdom, its energy, and the good organisation of its armies, that modern Italy is not degenerated, that it is still worthy of liberty. ”