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Article II, Connecticut Constitution
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Article II of the Connecticut Constitution is entitled of the Distribution of Powers.
Article II text
of the Distribution of Powers
The powers of government shall be divided into three distinct departments, and each of them confided to a separate magistracy, to wit, those which are legislative, to one; those which are executive, to another; and those which are judicial, to another.[1] |
Amendments
- Constitutional Amendment 28, which was approved on November 24, 1982.[1]
See also
- State constitution
- Constitutional article
- Constitutional amendment
- Constitutional revision
- Constitutional convention
- Amendments
External links
- Connecticut Constitution
- Roland, Jon. The Constitution Society, "The Fundamental Orders," accessed January 14, 2007.
- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, "Fundamental Orders," Columbia University Press (2005)," accessed February 27, 2014.
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