Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government

The Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government was a state agency created by the Virginia legislature in 1956, with the mission of promoting "constitutional government" in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education. The Commission brought together leading Virginia writers, journalists, lawyers, and politicians who wrote pamphlets and books opposing integration of the public schools, federal civil rights statutes, and recent Supreme Court decisions. The Commission was headed by David J. Mays, a Pulitzer Prize–winning author,[1] and James J. Kilpatrick. The Commission maintained an active publication schedule until 1967.

Their publications included Civil Rights and Federal Powers,[2] Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs,[3] The Right Not to Listen, Did the Court Interpret or Amend?,[4] and Alfred Avins, The Reconstruction amendments' debates : the legislative history and contemporary debates in Congress on the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.

  1. ↑ James R. Sweeney ed., Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959 (2008).
  2. ↑ Virginia. Commission on Constitutional Government. (4 June 1964). "Civil rights and Federal powers : a further critical commentary upon the pending omnibus Civil rights bill". Richmond, Va. : The Commission, – via Internet Archive.
  3. ↑ Virginia. Commission on Constitutional Government. (4 June 1963). "Civil rights and legal wrongs : a critical commentary upon the President's pending "Civil rights" bill of 1963". Richmond, Va. : The Commission, – via Internet Archive.
  4. ↑ Virginia. Commission on Constitutional Government. (4 June 1960). "Did the court interpret or amend? The meaning of the Fourteenth amendment, in terms of a State's power to operate racially separate public schools, as". [Richmond, 1960] – via Internet Archive.
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