Article 1, Section 1. Powers of government.
The powers of the government of the state of Mississippi 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 judicial to another, and those which are executive to another.
SOURCES: 1817 art II § 1; 1832 art II § 1; 1869 art
III § 1.