Constitution of Connecticut (2025 publisher edition) — Article SECOND

Publisher edition notice: The publisher identifies this compilation as revised to January 1, 2025. It preserves the annotated original 1965 text and all ratified amendments, alongside the Revisors' unofficial convenience version incorporating extant amendments. The latter does not supersede the original Constitution and amendments; later changes have not been independently verified.

Article SECOND Revisors’ compilation incorporating extant amendments; publisher convenience version.

ARTICLE SECOND.
OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS.
(Distribution of powers. Delegation of regulatory authority. Disapproval of
administrative regulations.)
The powers of government shall be divided into three distinct departments, and each
of them confided to a separate magistracy, to wit, those which are legislative, to one;
those which are executive, to another; and those which are judicial, to another. The
legislative department may delegate regulatory authority to the executive department;
except that any administrative regulation of any agency of the executive department

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Art. III CODIFIED CONSTITUTION 251
OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT
INCORPORATING ALL EXTANT AMENDMENTS
may be disapproved by the general assembly or a committee thereof in such manner
as shall by law be prescribed.
Historical Note: This Article, as printed here, incorporates Article XVIII., of the Amendments to the Constitution of
the State of Connecticut. Said Article XVIII., was adopted on November 24, 1982, and authorized the legislative depart-
ment to delegate regulatory authority to the executive department, reserving to the general assembly or a committee
thereof the authority to disapprove any administrative regulation made by an executive department agency.

Article SECOND Original 1965 text and publisher annotations; retained historical context.

ARTICLE SECOND.
OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS.
(Distribution of powers.)
1
The powers of government shall be divided into three distinct departments, and
each of them confided to a separate magistracy, to wit, those which are legislative, to
one; those which are executive, to another; and those which are judicial, to another.
1 Amended by Article XVIII., of the Amendments to the Constitution of the State of Connecticut.