LibGuides: Primary Sources: Virginia: Government

Online Sources: Virginia Government

Constitution of Virginia
Kaine email project at the Library of Virginia
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The Library of Virginia has made the email records from the administration of Governor Tim Kaine (2006–2010) accessible online; you can search and view email records from the Governor’s Office and his Cabinet Secretaries.

The LVA is releasing the approximately 1.3 million email messages in batches; so check back for more additions.
Virginia.gov
Virginia General Assembly
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The General Assembly is the legislative body for the Commonwealth of Virginia. From this site users can find information about the legislature, find the full-text of bills and resolutions, access laws, and more.
Virginia Law Portal (Code of Virginia, Consitution of Virginia, etc.)
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Provides access to Code of Virginia; Virginia Administrative Code and the Constitution of Virginia as well as other information.

Book Sources: Virginia Government

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
Click the title for location and availability information.

Off campus access instructions (for e-books)

Journal of the Senate of Virginia, October session, 1792 by Virginia. General Assembly. Senate.
Call Number: J87 V6 1792
Journal of the session October 1 to December 28, 1792 which has not heretofore been printed.
Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia by Virginia. Council
Call Number: J87 V58
1622-1632, 1670-1676 : with notes and excerpts from original Council and General court records, into 1683, now lost
edited by H.R. McIlwaine
Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia (ebook) by Virginia
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia (print) by Virginia. Governor.
Call Number: F221.V817 O3
v. 1. The letters of Patrick Henry.--v. 2. The letters of Thomas Jefferson.--v. 3. The letters of Thomas Nelson and Benjamin Harrison.
Opinions of the Attorney General and Report to the Governor of Virginia by Virginia. Office of the Attorney General
Call Number: KFV2840.5 .V817
1959-1977
Proceedings and Debates of the House of Delegates ... by Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates.
Call Number: KFV2801 1970 .A2235
pertaining to amendment of the Constitution, extra session 1969, regular session 1970.
Proceedings and Debates of the Senate of Virginia ... by Virginia. General Assembly. Senate.
Call Number: KFV2801 1970 .A224
pertaining to amendment of the constitution: extra session 1969, regular session 1970
Report of the proceedings and debates of the Constitutional Convention, state of Virginia
Call Number: JK3925 1901 .A2
held in the city of Richmond June 12, 1901, to June 26, 1902.
The Constitution of Virginia: Report of the Commission on Constitutional Revision... by Virginia. Commission on Constitutional Revision.
Call Number: KFV2801 1902.A183
o His Excellency, Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Governor of Virginia, the General Assembly of Virginia, and the people of Virginia.
The Debates and proceedings of the Constitutional convention of the state of Virginia by Virginia.
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
assembled at the city of Richmond, tuesday, December 3, 1867: beign a full and complete report of the debates and proceedings of the convention, together with the reconstruction acts of Congress and those supplementary thereto, the order of the commander of the First military district assembling the convention, and the new constitution. Official: W. H. Samuel, phonographic reporter
The Letter Book of James Abercromby, Colonial Agent, 1751-1773 by John C. Van Horne (Editor); George H. Reese (Editor)
Call Number: F229 .A24 1991
ISBN: 088490170X
The Official Letters of Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1710-1722 by Alexander Spotswood
Call Number: Online - free - Library of Congress

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