Article III, Virginia Constitution

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Article III of the Virginia Constitution is entitled Division of Powers and consists of one section.

Section 1

Text of Section 1: Departments to Be Distinct The legislative, executive, and judicial departments shall be separate and distinct, so that none exercise the powers properly belonging to the others, nor any person exercise the power of more than one of them at the same time; provided, however, administrative agencies may be created by the General Assembly with such authority and duties as the General Assembly may prescribe. Provisions may be made for judicial review of any finding, order, or judgment of such administrative agencies.

See also

• State constitution
• Constitutional article
• Constitutional amendment
• Constitutional revision
• Constitutional convention
• Amendments
  • Initiated constitutional amendment
  • Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment
  • Publication requirements for proposed state constitutional amendments
  • Rules about constitutional conventions in state constitutions
  • State constitutional articles governing state legislatures

External links

Suggest a link

• Virginia's Legislative Information System, "Constitution of Virginia"
• Yale.edu, "1776 Constitution"
• Virginia Government Matters, "Virginia Constitution 1830"
• Virginia Government Matters, "Virginia Constitution 1851"
• Virginia Government Matters, "Virginia Constitution 1870"
• Virginia Government Matters, "Virginia Constitution 1864"
• Virginia Government Matters, "Virginia Constitution 1902"
• Virginia Historical Society
• You Tube, "Brief History of the Virginia Constitution"

Additional reading

• Dinan, John. (2014). The Virginia State Constitution, New York, New York: Oxford University Press
• Selby, John E. “Henry Lee, John Adams and the Virginia Constitution of 1776” in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 84, No. 4 (Oct. 1976): 387–400
• Holt, Wythe W. Jr., "The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902," in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 76 (January, 1968), pp.67-102
• McDaniel, Ralph C. (1928). The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902, Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins Press