"But," you may say, "the senate in its turn will absorb the grand-elector."--"The remedy is worse than the disease; nobody, according to this plan, has any guarantees," and each, therefore, will try to secure them to himself, the grand-elector against the senate, the consuls against the grand-elector, and the senate against the grand-elector and consuls combined, each uneasy, alarmed, threatened, threatening, and usurping to protect himself; these are the wheels which work the wrong way, in a machine constantly getting out of order, stopping, and finally breaking down entirely. Thereupon, and as Bonaparte, moreover, was already master, all the executive powers were reduced to one, and this power was vested in him.[2110] In reality, "to humor republican opinion"[2111] they gave him two associates with the same title as his own; but they were appointed only for show, simply as consulting, inferior, and docile registrars, with no rights save that of signing their names after his and putting their signatures to the procès verbal declaring his orders; he alone commanded, "he alone had the say, he alone appointed to all offices," so that they were already subjects as he alone was already the sovereign. VI. Irreconcilable divisions. Difficulty of organizing a legislative power.--Fraudulent and violent elections for ten years.--Spirit and diffusion of hatred against the men and dogmas of the Revolution. --Probable composition of a freely elected Assembly.--Its two irreconcilable divisions.--Sentiments of the army. --Proximity and probable meaning of a new coup d'État.