cattahoochee valley community college for letting me do this here, and doctor cannon, kelli williams and karen kelly, and all the people that helped me put this together. and also c-span who's here tonight covering the event your and, of course, they would be remiss if i didn't thank my family who unfortunately couldn't make it tonight for giving me the support for doing this. also the support to write my other books and have time to do those things when there didn't seem to be much time to do anything. so that are of course the backbone of all this. now, before i start i'd like to tell each one of my students, actually this book is dedicated to you. it is dedicated to much of an dedicated to you for the reason being every semester at cvcc i teach the constitution. and as you all are aware when i do that, i ask the question of how many of you have ever read the constitution and, of course, usually one hand goes up, maybe two, sometimes none. so every semester i'm confronted with the fact that i go into a blank slate. it's unfortunate because the constitution of course is the governing document for t