Attorney-General Ex. Rel. Commissioners of Coos County v. Morin

Article 37 of the New Hampshire Bill of Rights provides as follows:

“In the government of this state, the three essential powers thereof, to wit, the legislative, executive, and judicial, ought' to be kept as separate from, and independent of, each other, as the nature of a free government will admit, or as is consistent with that chain of connection that binds the whole, fabric of the constitution in one indissoluble bond of union and amity.”

The position of the relators is thus stated in their brief:

“Primarily, judicial power connotes the disposition of litigation according to principles of…