ARTICLE III.
OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS.
1. The powers of the government shall be distributed into three departments, the legislative, the executive and the judicial.
2. No person or persons connected with one of these departments shall exercise any of the powers belonging to either of the others, except in cases herein directed or permitted.
ARTICLE IV.
OF THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.
1. The legislative power shall be vested in two distinct houses, the one to be called the house of representatives, the other the senate, and both together the General Assembly. The concurrent votes of the two houses shall be necessary to the enactment of laws; and the style of their laws shall be—Be it enacted by the General Assembly as follows.
2. No member of the General Assembly shall be eligible to any civil office under the authority of the state during the term for which he shall have been elected.
3. If any representative or senator in the General Assembly of this state shall be appointed to any office under the government of the United States, and shall accept the same after his election as such senator or representative, his seat shall thereby become vacant.
4. Any person who holds an office under the government of the United States may be elected a member of the General Assembly and may hold his seat therein if at the time of taking his seat he shall have resigned said office, and shall declare the same on oath or affirmation, if required.
5. No member of the General Assembly shall take any fees, be of counsel, or act as advocate in any case pending before either branch of the General Assembly, under penalty of forfeiting his seat upon due proof thereof.