Section 2

Miss. Const. art. 1, § 2, under DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS.

Miss. Const. art. 1, § 2

Section 2

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.