West Virginia Constitution
Article V, § 1 — Division of powers
West Virginia Const. art. V, § 1
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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.
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