all right we will start from my left of the table and that means we start with lindsay chervinsky the, floor is yours and i will sit down for a moment. >> thank you so much to everyone for being here and i know there are some stiff competition in this particular panel and i speak for everyone when i say that we are grateful that you hear and we hope that you will participate in a robust conversation and i think that's what makes round tables fun and i hope that you agree. after the end of the revolutionary war i like to jump right to the end of it. a generation of soldiers and officers went home and very few of them stay there for a long. they held positions in state governments and they held positions in the confederation of congress and they worked towards reform efforts both at the local level and on the national level. many of these initial efforts failed as historians of the confederation well no and they advocated for comprehensive reforms when they were trying within the congress which was sufficient. looking at the numbers that were illustrated about the level our participatio