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First Virginia Constitution, June 29, 1776. IN A General Convention, Begun and holden at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg, on Monday the sixth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, and continued, by adjournments to the [blank] day of June following.
The Constitution of Virginia, adopted June 29, 1776, by the Virginia Convention, establishes the powers of a governor, Council of State, and General Assembly independent of Great Britain.
The 1776 constitution left the newly-independent state with an official, established church until passage of the Act for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia in 1786. The governor was not designated as the head of the Anglican church in Virginia, to replace King George III in that position.
1 sty 2002 · Dr. Sioussat first called attention to the omission of this phrase in the Virginia Constitution (“The Breakdown of the Royal Management of Lands in the Southern Provinces, 1773–1775,” Agricultural History, iii [1929], 67–98).
Editorial Note: The Virginia Constitution I. First Draft by Jefferson, [before June 1776] II. Second Draft by Jefferson, [before 13 June 1776] III. Third Draft by Jefferson, [before June 1776] IV. The Plan of Government as Originally Drawn by George Mason, [8–10 June 1776] V. The Mason Plan as Revised by the Committee, [22 June 1776] VI.
Constitution of Virginia. A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS made by the good people of Virginia in the exercise of their sovereign powers, which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government.
Adopted by the Virginia House of Delegates in June 1776, the Virginia Declaration of Rights was part of the 1776 Virginia Constitution. Later, Thomas Jefferson drew inspiration from the Virginia Declaration’s vision of natural rights when drafting the Declaration of Independence.
