Core VCCG ideas, in fact, became part of the approach of the Virginia school of political economy. Chief among them was, in the words of its chair, a well-regarded corporate lawyer, “that [we] carefully distinguish between the growth of federal power due to the amazing changes in the world since 1787 as contrasted with the needless increase in bureaucracy by those seeking to puff up their jobs or who think that they can best run all the people’s affairs.”24
