Article II, Missouri Constitution

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Article II of the Missouri Constitution is entitled Distribution of Powers and consists of a single section.

Section 1

Text of Section 1: Three Departments of Government--Separation of Powers The powers of government shall be divided into three distinct departments—the legislative, executive and judicial—each of which shall be confided to a separate magistracy, and no person, or collection of persons, charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of those departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except in the instances in this constitution expressly directed or permitted.

See also

• State constitution
• Constitutional article
• Constitutional amendment
• Constitutional revision
• Constitutional convention
• Amendments
  • Initiated constitutional amendment
  • Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment
  • Publication requirements for proposed state constitutional amendments
  • Rules about constitutional conventions in state constitutions
  • State constitutional articles governing state legislatures

External links

Suggest a link

• Missouri General Assembly, "Missouri Constitution"
• History Engine, "Missouri's Third State Constitution Adopted"
• The Civil War in Missouri, "The Constitution of 1865 - Drake Constitution"
• Missouri State.edu, "Missouri Constitution of 1820"
• Missouri.gov, "Home"
• Green Papers, "Historical overview of the Missouri Constitution"
• YouTube, "Missouri Constitution"

Additional reading

• Schmidt, Alex J. (2008). Our Federal Constitution, Our Missouri Constitution, New York, New York: RJS Publications