The candidate must be instructed and prepared, and they are always at liberty to recede.

Their reason must approve the obligations and duties of their station, or they are unfit for it.

If they recede, one duty is still incumbent upon them: they must observe an inviolable silence.

To this they are not held by any promise.

They must weigh consequences, and freely decide; but they must not fail to number among these consequences their own death.
Their death will not be prompted by vengeance.