Hutchinson v. Fox

Ray Thornton, Justice,

The Arkansas Constitution provides for the separation of powers into a Legislative Department, an Executive Department, and a Judicial Department, and states that “no person or collection ofpersons, being of one of these departments, shall exercise any power belonging to either of the others, except in the instances hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.” Ark. Const. Art. 4, § 2, cl. 1. The Constitution also provides that within the Legislative Department, “[e]ach house shall appoint its own officers and shall be the sole judge of the qualifications, returns, and…