It ordained, that in each harbour of the coast, a vessel should be stationed, for the safeguard of commerce.

It decreed the sum of one hundred florins to the heirs of every man who died in the defence of Rome; and it devoted the public revenues to the service and protection of the State.
Such, moderate at once and effectual, was the outline of the New Constitution; and it may amuse the reader to consider how great must have been the previous disorders of the city, when the common and elementary provisions of civilisation and security made the character of the code proposed, and the limit of a popular revolution.
The most rapturous shouts followed this sketch of the New Constitution: and, amidst the clamour, up rose the huge form of Cecco del Vecchio.
Despite his condition, he was a man of great importance at the present crisis: his zeal and his courage, and, perhaps, still more, his brute passion and stubborn prejudice, had made him popular.

The lower order of mechanics looked to him as their head and representative; out, then, he spake loud and fearlessly,--speaking well, because his mind was full of what he had to say.
"Countrymen and Citizens!--This New Constitution meets with your approbation--so it ought.

But what are good laws, if we do not have good men to execute them?
Who can execute a law so well as the man who designs it?
If you ask me to give you a notion how to make a good shield, and my notion pleases you, would you ask me, or another smith, to make it for you?
If you ask another, he may make a good shield, but it would not be the same as that which I should have made, and the description of which contented you.

Cola di Rienzi has proposed a Code of Law that shall be our shield.