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Article XXXVII of the 1784 New Hampshire Bill of Rights, a provision that is still in force, expressed a dialectical view of the matter in emphasizing separation, coordination and cooperation: “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 free government will admit, or as is consistent with that chain of connection that binds the whole fabric of the constitution in one indissoluble bond of union and amity.”
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