<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs to be updated . Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . (December 2011) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs to be updated . Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . (December 2011) </Td> </Tr> <P> The government of Virginia combines the three branches of authority in the Commonwealth of Virginia . The current Governor of Virginia is Ralph Northam . 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, the legislative, the executive and the judicial . </P> <P> The statewide elected officials are governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general . </P>

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