Weeks v. PERSONNEL BD. OF REVIEW, ETC.

I respectfully dissent. We observed in Creditors’ Service Corp. v. Cummings, 57 R.I. 291, 300, 190 A. 2, 8 (1937), that:

*249“The constitutional distribution of the powers of government is at once a grant of specific power to each department and a prohibition to the other two with reference to that same power.”

It is an established and fundamental principle of constitutional law that one department of government cannot interfere with or encroach on either of the other departments. In re Rhode Island Bar Ass’n, 106 R.I. 752, 263 A.2d 692 (1970). G. & D. Taylor & Co. v. Place, 4 R.I. 324 (1856).…