Article V, West Virginia Constitution

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Article V of the West Virginia Constitution consists of one section.

Section 1

	Text of Section 1: Division of Powers The legislative, executive and judicial departments shall be separate and distinct, so that neither shall exercise the powers properly belonging to either of the others; nor shall any person exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time, except that justices of the peace shall be eligible to the Legislature.

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

• West Virginia Legislature, "West Virginia Constitution"

Additional reading

• Bastress, Robert M. (2011). The West Virginia Constitution, New York, New York: Oxford University Press
• Stealey III, John E. (2013). West Virginia’s Civil War–Era Constitution, Kent State University Press