It is merely a constituted authority emanating from the government like the others."-- Ibid., P.147: "It must not be in the power of a legislative body to impede government by refusing taxes; once the taxes are established they should be levied by simple decrees.

The court of cassation regards my decrees as laws; otherwise, there would be no government." (January 9, 1808.)--Ibid., p.
147:" If I ever had any fear of the senate I had only to put fifty young state-councillors into it." (December 1, 1803.)--Ibid., p.150: "If an opposition should spring up in the legislative corps I would fall back on the senate to prorogue, change it, or break it up." (March 29, 1806.)--Ibid., p.151: "Sixty legislators go out every year which one does not know what to do with; those who do not get places go and grumble in the departments.

I should like to have old land-owners married, in a certain sense, to the state through their family or profession, attached by some tie to the commonwealth.

Such men would come to Paris annually, converse with the emperor in his own circle, and be contented with this little bit of vanity relieving the monotony of their existence." (Same date.)--Cf.

Thibaudeau, "Memoires sur le Consulat," ch.XIII., and M.de Metternich, "Memoires," I., 120 (Words of Napoleon at Dresden, in the spring of 1812): "I shall give the senate and the council of state a new organization.