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Government of Virginia
The
government of Virginia
combines the three branches of authority in the
Commonwealth of Virginia
. The current
Governor
of Virginia is
Terry McAuliffe
. The
State Capitol
building in
Richmond
was designed by
Thomas Jefferson
, and the cornerstone was laid by Governor
Patrick Henry
in
1785
. Virginia currently functions under the 1971
Constitution of Virginia
. It is the Commonwealth's seventh
constitution
. Under the Constitution, the government is composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.
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