Article 1, Section 2. Encroachment of power.
No person or collection of persons, being one or belonging to one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others. The acceptance of an office in either of said departments shall, of itself, and at once, vacate any and all offices held by the person so accepting in either of the other departments.
SOURCES: 1817 art II § 2; 1832 art II § 2; 1869 art
III § 1.