Part Two The Virginia Constitution and Commentary, Art.VIII Education

Although the 1851 and 1864 Constitutions each contained a provision in the Legislature Article requiring a capitation tax to “be levied on every white male inhabitant who has attained the age of twenty-one years, ” and for “one equal moiety” of the proceeds to “be applied to the purposes of education in primary and free schools, ” the 1870 Constitution was the first to include a separate Education Article and provide for a state school system.150 In several respects, the basic elements of the Education Article in the 1870 Constitution have been carried over,...