New Hampshire - 2. Wednesday of Feb 7 1792 Bill of Rights. Art: 37. In the Government of this State, the three essential powers thereof, to wit, the Legislative, Executive and judicial, ought to be kept as separate from, and independent of, each other as the nature of a free government will admit, or as is consistent with that chain of connexion that binds the whole fabric of the Constitution in one indissoluble bond of unity and amity - Massachusetts - March 1780. Bill of rights - Article 30. In the Government of this Commonwealth, the Legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers or either of them. The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end that it may be a Government of Laws, and not of men - Connecticut - September 1818. Article 2. Of the Distribution of Powers [struck: §.1. The Legislative power of this State shall] 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. Vermont. July 4. 1793 - Chapter 2 § 6. The Legislative, executive, and judiciary departments shall be separate and distinct, so that neither exercise the powers, properly belonging to the other. [docket] Constitutions. Legislative - Executive - Judicial -