The commission spread its message far and wide: that the federal government had been acting illegitimately since at least the 1930s—a school of thought that would later be called “the Constitution in Exile” and associated with Justice Clarence Thomas and others on the arch right. As the VCCG’s chairman of publications, Jack Kilpatrick ensured that the group’s publications reached every state legislator and governor, every member of the U.S. Congress, federal judges, bar associations, business leaders, chambers of commerce, town and law school libraries beyond number, and daily newspapers and
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