These powers are especially noteworthy if we compare them with those of the Ministry.

The President commissions such and such a senator or deputy to form a Ministry (not necessarily representing the opinions of the majority of the Chambers); and that Ministry is responsible to the Chambers for the execution of laws and the general policy of the Government; but the President is not responsible to the Chambers, save in the single and very exceptional case of high treason to the State.
Obviously, the Assembly wished to keep up the autocratic traditions of the past as well as to leave open the door for a revision of the Constitution at any time favourable to the monarchical cause.

That this Constitution did not pave the way for the monarchy was due to several causes.

Some we have named above.
Another and perhaps a final cause was the unwillingness or inability of Marshal MacMahon to bring matters to the test of force.

Actuated, perhaps, by motives similar to those which kept the Duke of Wellington from pushing matters to an extreme in England in 1831, the Marshal refused to carry out a _coup d'etat_ against the Republican majority sent up to the Chamber of Deputies by the General Election of January 1876.