joseph tartakovsky here to take your calls and talk about the constitution. then, joe is up first. a republican. go ahead. basically question is how the second amendment came roughly 14 and a half years after the declaration of independence. signers and writers of the declaration were also involved in the constitution and didn't the right to bear arms actually exist under the declaration? the constitution just confirms that right as they call it the right to bear arms and not a right to bear arms? where there any writers from the that also wrote were were involved in the constitution? host: joseph tartakovsky. >> there were a handful of people who were in office at the time of the declaration that also were involved in the drafting and ratification. maybe in the first congress that produced the bill of rights. james wilson is one of them. he wasn't in congress. he was on the court or the supreme court held that the second amendment protects an individual's natural right to keep and bear arms. the bill of rights doesn't give us these rights. the biggest miscon

the book allen was referring to, the lives of the constitution by joseph tartakovsky. you to our c-span 50 capitals tour. we stopped this week in wyoming. number 31 on our capital stored takes us to cheyenne wyoming. it's the largest city in the state. it was established in 1867. joining us on the c-span bus in front of the wyoming capital is the governor matt mead who is currently in his second term. governor mead, how would you describe the state of the state of wyoming? >> we are in good shape and i thank you for the opportunity to talk about wyoming. one of the things that i'm really proud of in my time in office is we nearly doubled our rainy day fund. we have great savings in our permanent fund and our tech sector continues to grow. are proudly the number one energy state in terms of exporting that has been a challenge the last two or three years. we see that coming back as well and so wyoming remains very strong and i'm very proud of that. >> i think i read on ballot p budgetat wyoming cut its a little less than $8 billion. is that correct fact? >> that number w

joseph tartakovsky probably known to many of you here has been associated with the fairmount institute. he has a law degree from fordham and he was deputy celeste -- he lives in san francisco. he was born in the soviet union, right? he's one of those people who have strong reasons to appreciate what the constitution has done for us in america and my summary of this book before he gets his own account of it we have to appreciate that the constitution is not just the work of the original framers but of many generations since then and it culminates with justice scalia and respectful and grateful for his contributions. >> jeremy. thank you to all of you for coming in the rain and thank you to c-span for covering this and thank you to the claremont institute and brian williams for hosting. i know the claremont institute wanted to do an event for a new author with a book on law they had a hard decision to make to be made or james comey. [laughter] i'm really happy to be doing this for the claremont institute. i've been involved with the claremont institute for a long time because the claremo

joseph tartakovsky joining us from san francisco this morning. thanks so much. the house coming in for a brief pro forma session this morning. we now take you live to the floor. host: back with you live on the washington journal. time for some open phones this morning. about 15 minutes until we show you the