None of these branches has any right to organize itself: that must be done by the law.

Therefore we must make a body which shall organize the manner of deliberations of these three branches.
The Tribunate ought to be divided into five sections.

The discussion of laws will take place secretly in each section: one might even introduce a discussion between these sections and those of the Council of State.

Only the reporter will speak publicly.
Then things will go on reasonably." Having delivered this opinion, _ex cathedra_, he departed (January 7th, 1802) for Lyons, there to be invested with supreme authority in the reconstituted Cisalpine, or as it was now termed, Italian Republic[177] Returning at the close of the month, radiant with the lustre of this new dignity, he was able to bend the Tribunate and the _Corps Legislatif_ to his will.

The renewal of their membership by one-fifth served as the opportunity for subjecting them to the more pliable Senate.