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1 Constitution of Kentucky 1 (1812)

handle is hein.statecon/cstktcy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Con*t. Cotiv. CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY. WE, the Representatives of the People of the State of Ken- tucky, in Convention assembled, to secure to all the citizens there- of, the enjoyment of the right of life, liberty and property, and of pursuing happiness, do ain and establish this Constitutioa for its government. ARTICLE R. Concerning the distribution of the powers of the government. STIoN 1. The powers of the government of the State of Kentucky, shall be divided into three distinct departments, and each of them be confided to a separate body of magistracy, to. wit: Those which are legislative, to one; those which are ex- ecutive, to another; and those 'which are judiciary, to another. SECTION 2. No person, or collection of persons, being of one of those departments, shall exercise any power properly belong- *The first Constitution of the State of Kentucky was adopted and ratified in Convention at Danville, on the 19th day of April, 1792; and provided that the Government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky should commence on the first day of June of the same year. The Constitution 'will be found in 1 Littell's Laws of Kentucky, pages 21 to 38. By the sixth section of the eighth article, it was provided, that all laws then in force, in the State of Virginia, not inconsistent with the Constitution, and of a eneral nature, and not local to the eastern part of Virginia, should be in fore ere, until altered or repealed by the Legislature. By the eleventh article, it was provided that, at the General Election for Rept resentatives in 1797, the sense of the people should also be taken upon the pro. priety of calling a Convention, and that if the result was in favor of a Conven- tion, similar proceedings should be had in 1798, and that if the result was again in favor of a Convention, the General Assembly should, at their next ensuing see. sion, pass an act for calling a Convention to revise the Constitution. The result of the vote in each of the years of 1797 and 1798, being in favor of a Conven. tion, the Legislature, on the 18th of December, 1798, passed the necessary law for calling the Convention. For the act, see 2 Littell's Lawms of Kentucky, 211. The Convention aceordingly met at Frankfort, and adopted the present Coa. stitutionof Kentucky, onthe 17th day of August, 1799.

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