Cook v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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• legislature may not combine the offices of Clerk of the Supreme Court and Secretary of State
• legislature may not combine the offices of Clerk of the Supreme Court and Secretary of State
• “the Legislature, in the absence of express constitutional authority, is as powerless to add to a constitutional office duties foreign to that office, as it is to take away duties that naturally belong to it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).