The Constitution of the Year XII (French: Constitution de l’an XII), also called the Organic Sénatus-consulte of 28 Floréal, year XII (Sénatus-consulte organique du 28 floréal an XII), was a national constitution of the First French Republic adopted during the Year XII of the French Revolutionary Calendar (1804 in the Gregorian calendar).

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (January 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 6,158 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Sénatus-consulte organique du 28 floréal an XII]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|fr|Sénatus-consulte organique du 28 floréal an XII}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Quick Facts Original title, Ratified ...

Constitution of the Year XII
Constitution of the Year XII (1804).
Original title	(in French) Constitution de l'an XII
Ratified	1804
Repealed	1814

Close

It amended the earlier Constitution of the Year VIII and Constitution of the Year X, establishing the First French Empire with Napoleon Bonaparte — previously First Consul for Life, with wide-ranging powers — as Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. The Constitution established the House of Bonaparte as France's imperial dynasty, making the throne hereditary in Napoleon's family. The Constitution of the Year XII was later itself extensively amended by the Additional Act and definitively abolished with the final return of the Bourbons in 1815.

• 1804 French constitutional referendum

• (in English) Text of the Constitution of the Year XII

French Wikisource has original text related to this article:

Constitution of the Year XII

This article relating to the law of France is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This article about a constitutional law topic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e