4117 ([return])
[ Any dictator or dictator's draftsman will, upon reading this understand how easy it is to make a sham constitution and sham electoral systems for a de facto dictatorship.(SR.)]
4118 ([return])
[ Thibaudeau, 72, 289 (words of the First Consul at a meeting of the Council of State, Thermidor 16, year X).]
4119 ([return])
[ Ibid., p. 293. Sénatus-consulte of Thermidor 16, year X, and of Fructidor 19, year X.]
4120 ([return])
[ Decree of January 17, 1806, article 40.]
4121 ([return])
[ Aucoc, "Conférence sur l'administration et le droit administratif," §§ 101, 162, 165. In our legislative system the council of the arrondissement has not become a civil personality, while it has scarcely any other object than to apportion direct taxes among the communes of the arrondissement]