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ALEXANDER v. STATE BY AND THROUGH ALLAIN

No. 54741.

441 So.2d 1329 (1983)

William B. ALEXANDER, Senator; Joseph L. Blount, Representative; Ellis B. Bodron, Senator; Thomas L. Brooks, Representative; Edward H. Beulow, Jr., Representative; Thomas H. Campbell, III, Representative; Archie L. Cates, Representative; Donald Ray Chambliss, Representative; Aubrey Mitchell Childre, Senator; Robert L. Crook, Senator; Algie Arnold Davis, Senator; Glen S. DeWeese, Senator; Lawrence G. Dubaz, Jr., Representative; W. Edward Ellington, Senator; Thomas A. Gollott, Senator; Carl J. Gordon, Jr., Senator; J.K. Gresham, Senator; Richard E. Hall, Representative; R.G. Huggins, Representative; H.L. Merideth, Jr., Representative; Theodore J. Millette, Representative; Joe Henry Mulholland, Senator; C.B. Newman, Representative; Charles Ray Nix, Senator; Edgar H. Overstreet, Senator; Emmett H. Owens, Representative; F. Edwin Perry, Representative; John William Powell, Senator; Don W. Richardson, Representative; James C. Simpson, Representative; George P. Smith, Senator; Q. Emerson Stringer, Jr., Senator; W. Terrell Stubbs, Representative; John H. Waldrop, Senator; Thomas H. Walman, Representative; and Charles L. Young, Representative v. The STATE of Mississippi, By and Through Bill Allain, Attorney General.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied December 14, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.L. Brunini, Sr., John E. Milner, Walter S. Weems, Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, Jackson, for appellants.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen., Stephen J. Kirchmayr, J. Stephen Wright, Susan L. Runnels, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

PATTERSON, Chief Justice, for the Court:

The separation of governmental powers is the basis of this suit. Article I, Sections 1 and 2 of the Mississippi Constitution provides:

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI ADOPTED NOVEMBER 1, A.D., 1890 Section 1. The powers of the government of the state of Mississippi shall be divided into three distinct departments, and each of them confided...

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