Missouri Constitution

Article III
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
Section 1

August 28, 2007



Legislative power--general assembly.

Section 1. The legislative power shall be vested in a senate and house of representatives to be styled "The General Assembly of the State of Missouri."

Source: Const. of 1875, Art. IV, § 1.

(1957) The senate, acting independently, has no power to create committees to sit after adjournment of the general assembly but both houses of the general assembly acting jointly by resolution may create such committees. State ex rel. Jones v. Atterbury (Mo.), 300 S.W.2d 806.

(1958) Section 71.015 providing for action by city for declaratory judgment authorizing annexation of unincoproated areas is not an unlawful delegation of legislative power to the judiciary. City of St. Joseph v. Hankinson (Mo.), 312 S.W.2d 4.


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